Passing
Passing glossary terms
Terms related to being perceived as cisgender and passing strategies
- Pass: The ability or incidence of being regarded by others as a gender, or as cisgender, without needing to explicitly...
- Anamaxxing: The practice of extreme weight loss with the goal of achieving a more androgynous or gender-conforming appearance....
- Anglefrauding / Anglefagging: Using extreme angles within selfies and photographs to make yourself pass better than in real life.
- Auschwitzmoding: Being extremely skinny and underweight. It is often associated with eating disorders and trying to lose weight to...
- BDD passoid: A trans person who passes as the gender they identify as but is convinced that they do not due to their Body...
- Clock: To spot that somebody is transgender based upon their physical attributes such as appearance or voice.
- Dwarfmoding: This usually refers to FTMs that are embracing being a short hairy man as a helpful way to improve their passability.
- Elfmoding: This usually refers to MTFs that are embracing being a tall skinny woman as a helpful way to improve their passability.
- Fatmaxxing: An MTF that deliberately gains weight to soften her bone structure and pass more effectively as a female. This can...
- Luckshit: A trans person with an unfair advantage in their passability due to good luck, genetics, finances, background, etc.
- Malefail: The incidence of a trans woman being treated as a woman when presenting male in public.
- Man in a dress: a common phrase for describing a non-passing transwoman.
- Mogging: When somebody makes another person look bad by being superior in terms of some physical attribute. For example,...
- Passoid: a person who passes as the gender they have transitioned into.
- Stealth: The act of maintaining a lifestyle where no one knows that you are transgender and you are perceived exclusively as...
- Sussymoder: A trans person who looks "suspiciously" trans instead of more definitively cis.
- Trannerexia: The tendency to starve one's self in order to be thin and passing as a trans person.
- Weight Cycling: A technique used to accelerate fat redistribution while on hormones, involving cycles of gaining weight, then...
- Semipassoid: A trans person who passes inconsistently or only in certain contexts, leading to mixed experiences of being gendered...
- Sleevemoder: A trans person, typically a trans woman, who deliberately wears long sleeves or oversized sleeves to hide masculine...
- Soulpassing: The concept of passing as one's gender identity through personality, mannerisms, interests, and general "vibes"...
- Passhon: An MTF that passes as an ugly or unusual looking woman.
- Gymmaxxing: The act of working out and using the gym in order to achieve transition goals, this is most commonly associated with...
- Pitypassing: When a person does not pass as their gender, but is still gendered correctly by friends and strangers alike out of...
- Skinwalker: The act of copying and imitating a specific person's style, appearance, personality, etc, in one's pursuit of...
- Gigapassoid: A trans person who passes exceptionally well as their identified gender, to the point where their trans status would...
- Roachmaxxing: An FTM practice of deliberately maintaining poor hygiene under the belief that the filthier they become, the more...
- Effortmaxxing: The act of putting effort into moving forward with one's transition and passability instead of assuming that HRT...
- Clocky / Clockymoder: The state of being easily clockable or clocked, as in you only sometimes, partially, or mostly pass to strangers as...
Source: Brainworms Glossary category compiled from 4chan /lgbt/ and adjacent community usage.