The Real Transgender Dictionary

[rachel89]

Electrolysis- A process where you are slowly relieved of unwanted hair but quickly relieved of wanted cash.

[LordKAT]

STP: personal device, not oil treatment.

Binder: inexpensive alternative to surgical chest reduction

[rachel89]

Therapy- Where you pay someone else for diagnosing yourself as transgender.

[suzifrommd]

SRS - Handing over your life savings, risking scary complications, and enduring intense pain to end up with what most people get simply for being born.

[LordKAT]

SRS - Handing over your life savings, risking scary complications, and enduring intense pain to end up with what most people get simply for being born.

I'd modify that to getting something sort of like what you should have been born with.

[Jayne]

Gatekeeper - a therapist who holds up HRT for obscure reasons, fortunately gatekeepers are a dying breed due to an outbreak of common sense and enlightenment

[rachel89]

Laser-A device that can always be used to entertain cats and be sometimes used to remove hair to reduce the hours of electrolysis needed.

[suzifrommd]

Date - a meal or event spent with an attractive person to pass the time between meeting them and learning they still consider you a member of your gender assigned at birth.

[KimSails]

Restroom -- Scary place with lots of plumbing fixtures where you risk life, limb, and freedom just for the ability to empty your bladder. 

[kittenpower]

>-bleeped-<- the gear change thingy in your vehicle

[Jayne]

GRS - the first thing people ask about when they learn you're trans

[rachel89]

HRT-When the presence or absence of a methyl group and a hydroxyl or ketone group on a 4 ringed molecule makes all the difference in the world. Unlike cis-gender people who get the correct hormones for free, we need to pay for ours.

[rachel89]

FFS-A surgery invented because GRS just isn't quite painful enough.