Your 'how-to' guide to avoid offending anyoneGLBT: Shorthand for GLBTQ2IA.
GLBTQ2IA: The acronym for Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgendered, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Allies. "This is coming from the youth movement, the college campuses, it has not seeped into the whole community at this point," says Baim, who at the Windy City Times uses GLBT, an acronym the New York Times has not yet seen fit to print.
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Transgendered: (trans) A person who is not presenting as their biological gender. "It is fascinating how transgendered is becoming like an octopus with all the tentacles of identity and personal design. The transgendered movement is burgeoning and fluid, they are creating all of these new ways to define who they are," says Baim.
