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Title IX
Title IX (Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act), 1972 US federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education; famous for athletics, sexual assault proceedings, and 2026 Supreme Court transgender sports rulings.
Toby Young
Toby Young (born 1963), Lord Young of Acton, is a British journalist and campaigner, son of Michael Young; founder of the Free Speech Union, co-founder of the West London Free School and the Modern Review.
Tokata Iron Eyes
Tokata (Tokatawin) Iron Eyes, later Gibson, is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota Standing Rock Sioux youth climate activist who led the ReZpect Our Water campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline at age 12 and later worked with Greta Thunberg.
Tokenism
Tokenism is the superficial inclusion of small numbers of marginalized group members to create an appearance of diversity. Rooted in Rosabeth Moss Kanter's 1977 token theory (performance pressures, boundary heightening, role entrapment) and applied to DEI critiques.
Tolstoy family
The Tolstoy family is a Russian noble family with ancestry to the fourteenth century, best known through Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), his 48-year marriage to Sofia Tolstaya, their 13 children, and descendants maintaining Yasnaya Polyana.
Tom Green (polygamist)
Thomas Arthur Green (1948-2021), Utah independent Mormon fundamentalist polygamist, not an LDS Church member, lived with five wives and about 30 children at Greenhaven; convicted of bigamy in 2001 and child rape in 2002.
Tom Metzger
Tom Metzger (Thomas Linton Metzger, 1938-2020) was an American white supremacist, California KKK grand dragon, and founder of White Aryan Resistance, known for the cable show Race and Reason and the $12.5 million Seraw judgment.
Tomboy
Tomboy: a girl who behaves in conventionally masculine ways. Studied via the Tomboy Project (N=60, ages 4-9), masculinity-predicted adult traits, puberty decline, and partial overlap with lesbian identity.
Tongyangxi (童养媳)
Tongyangxi (童养媳, shim-pua, minor marriage) is the traditional Chinese practice of adopting a young girl to raise as a future wife for a son, widespread until the 1950 Marriage Law ban and still persisting in some rural areas.
Topfreedom
Topfreedom is the movement for women's right to go bare-chested in public where men may, also called topfree equality or Free the Nipple. Key facts: New York legalized it in 1992, Ontario in 1996, GoTopless founded 2007.
Toxic masculinity
Toxic masculinity, coined in the 1980s mythopoetic men's movement and later adopted by feminists, describes harmful masculine traits such as domination, misogyny, and violence; its definition, measurement, and usefulness remain academically contested.
Tradwife
Tradwife (traditional wife): women promoting traditional homemaker roles and submission to husbands via TikTok, Instagram, YouTube; anti-feminist ideology, 2020 popularization, monetized influencer content, criticized as far-right adjacent.
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy is a 2025 Netflix documentary directed by Gillian Pachter about the October 2009 Fort Collins incident in which Richard Heene reported son Falcon aboard a runaway homemade saucer balloon; authorities later called it a hoax.
Tranny
Tranny (trannie) is a slang slur for a transgender person, especially a trans woman, first recorded 1960-65; once a pride term in 1990s Australia, now listed as defamatory by GLAAD, with limited self-referential use.
Trans man
Trans man (FTM): a man assigned female at birth. Covers terminology, testosterone-based masculinizing therapy and its risks, US population share (730,500 adults), healthcare discrimination, pregnancy, and legal recognition.
Trans woman
A trans woman is a woman assigned male at birth; older terms transsexual woman and MTF. Covers terminology, WHO/DSM reclassification, gender-affirming care, HIV and health disparities, and legal recognition worldwide.
Transgender
Transgender people have a gender identity differing from their sex assigned at birth; the term is an adjective, including non-binary identities. Key facts: gender-affirming hormone therapy may improve quality of life and reduce depression and anxiety; legal gender recognition effects are uncertain; discrimination is pervasive.
Transgender flag
Transgender pride flag, Monica Helms 1999 design, five light blue, pink, and white stripes, debuted Phoenix Pride 2000, symmetrical layout, original at Smithsonian NMAH, public domain.
Transgender history
Transgender history studies gender-nonconforming people across cultures and eras, from Mesopotamia and Elagabalus to Hirschfeld's 1919 institute, Jorgensen's 1952 transition, Stonewall-era activism, and the academic field founded around 2002-2008.
Transgender rights in the United States
Transgender rights in the United States: legal status under federal law (Bostock, Section 1557), state policy divergence tracked by MAP, the 2020s wave of restrictive state legislation, identity documents, and United States v. Skrmetti.
Transgender sexuality
Transgender sexuality, also called trans sexuality, is the study and lived experience of how transgender people experience sexual orientation, attraction, behavior, and sexual function during transition.
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement advocating the ethical use of technology to enhance human abilities and extend life, spiking in popularity in the 1990s.
Transphobia
Transphobia: prejudice, hatred, or fear of transgender people (ECRI definition), spanning interpersonal misgendering, violence, and structural laws. Measured via GMSR and Everyday Discrimination Scale; 187 studies link it to poor mental health and substance use.
Transsexual
Transsexual: a clinical term for transgender people whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex and who seek medical transition (hormones, surgery); coined by Hirschfeld (1923) and Cauldwell (1949), defined by Benjamin's 1966 work, now largely replaced by transgender except in ICD-10 and legal contexts.
Transvestigation
Transvestigation is an online conspiracy theory and practice in which "transvestigators" analyze celebrities' faces and bodies to claim they are secretly transgender, tied to "elite gender inversion," popularized from 2014, debunked as pseudoscience.
Transvestite pass
Transvestite pass (Transvestitenschein): police-issued permit in Imperial and Weimar Germany letting holders wear clothing of another gender without harassment; earliest documented applications 1908, tied to Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science; frequently revoked under the Nazi state.
Treatment of women by the Taliban
Treatment of women by the Taliban: systematic restrictions on Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule 1996–2001 and since the August 2021 takeover, covering education, work, dress, movement, health care, and gender persecution findings.
Triangular theory of love
Sternberg's triangular theory of love (1986) models love as intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment forming a triangle, yielding eight kinds of love and the Triangular Love Scale, validated cross-culturally.
Tribadism
Tribadism, also called tribbing or scissoring, is genital rubbing between women, especially vulva-to-vulva contact. From Greek tribein "to rub"; historically named the clitoris-linked "tribade" figure before narrowing to the act itself.
Triple parentheses
Triple parentheses, or the (((echo))), is an antisemitic typographic symbol marking names or terms as Jewish. Originated on the 2014 Daily Shoah podcast; listed by the ADL as a hate symbol in June 2016.