Meanings of gender presentation in English

Photo: AFP Karkazis says some of the most complicated debates about sex, sexuality, gender presentation and gender identity are about hormones.

For her, sexual orientation and gender presentation were synonymous, so the more masculine I dressed, the more she associated me with being gay.

However things like lower financial means, age, martial status, number of children, gender presentation, and sexual orientation can intensify the hate their families receive.

This is a classic transphobic trope, or a fear that her gender presentation does not "match" the sex she was assigned at birth.

Queer Black women and trans men, especially those who do not conform in their gender presentation, are seen as a threat to insecure black masculinity.

Gender presentation and sexual orientation complicate the hate Black mothers receive even more.