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A term used to describe someone who is assigned female at birth but identifies and lives as a man. This may be shortened to trans man, or FTM, an abbreviation for female-to-male. Transgender woman A-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics for specifications for first exams in 2018 (7356, 7357, 7366, 7367)

It has the same fortune cookie sayings from above, but the text is in pink like some Chinese restaurants have. This enables trans people to be legally recognised in their affirmed gender and to be issued with a new birth certificate. Not all trans people will apply for a GRC and you currently have to be over 18 to apply. A term used to describe someone who is assigned male at birth but identifies and lives as a woman. This may be shortened to trans woman, or MTF, an abbreviation for male-to-female. ​​Transitioning Femme is a term used in LGBT culture to describe someone who expresses themselves in a typically feminine way.There are other identities within the scope of femme, such as ‘low femme’, ‘high femme’, and ‘hard femme’. You shouldn’t use these terms about someone unless you know they identify with them. ​G Gay

A term used to describe a person who may have the biological attributes of both sexes or whose biological attributes do not fit with societal assumptions about what constitutes male or female. Another way of describing a person’s transition. To undergo gender reassignment usually means to undergo some sort of medical intervention, but it can also mean changing names, pronouns, dressing differently and living in their self-identified gender. Often expressed in terms of masculinity and femininity, gender is largely culturally determined and is assumed from the sex assigned at birth. ​Gender dysphoria

This was used in the past as a more medical term (similarly to homosexual) to refer to someone whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth. Stonewall uses the term ‘orientation’ as an umbrella term covering sexual and romantic orientations. S Sex

A term used in medical law to decide whether a child (under 16 years of age) is able to consent to their own medical treatment, without the need for parental permission or knowledge. Grey (sexual and romantic) HIV medication (antiretroviral treatment, or ART) works by reducing the amount of the virus in the blood to undetectable levels. This means the levels of HIV are so low that the virus cannot be passed on. This is called having an undetectable viral load or being undetectable. Someone whose gender identity is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. Non-trans is also used by some people. ​Coming outThis is the full list of fortune cookie sayings on the printables below for you to copy and paste into your own document if you want to create your own fortune cookie notes to print out.