Project:Transgender Intersex & Gender-Diverse: An Encyclopedia, Zz
Z, Count (b. 1844 – ?)
- Krafft-Ebing. “Zur ‘conträren Sexualempfindung’ in klinisch-forensischer Hinsicht” (1881). Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie und psychisch-gerichtliche Medicin. Vol. 38. pp. 211-27.
- Shaw, J. C. and G. N. Ferris. "Perverted Sexual Instinct" (April 1883). The Journal of Nervous Disease. Edited by William J. Morton. Vol. 10, No. 2. pp. 199-200.
Zaitsev (1890s – ?)
- Healey, Dan. “The Disappearance of the Russian Queen, or How the Soviet Closet was Born” in Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (2002). Edited By Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. 1st Ed. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 159.
- DOI: 10.1057/9780230501799
- ISBN-13: 9780230501799
- Zagria. “Zaitzev (189? - ?).” (4 December 2010). A Gender Variance Who’s Who. Zagria.
ZAND (1994/1995 – )
Stage name of English nonbinary singer-songwriter who uses they/them pronouns.
- Redrup, Zach. “NEWS: Seafoal to continue on as ZAND!” (10 January 2018). DEAD PRESS! DEAD PRESS!
- Williams, Pip. “ZAND lets their freak flag fly on binary-breaking new ugly pop anthem” (13 March 2020). The Line of Best Fit. The Line of Best Fit.
zap
Slang term for electrolysis within the trans community.
See also: electrolysis / for trans people.
- James, Andrea. “An abbreviated list of TS-related acronyms and slang” (Summer 2001). TS Road Map. A. J. James. [Defines ‘zap’ as “to get hair removal, esp. with electrolysis.”]
ze, hir, hir, hirs, hirself
See also: hir, hir, hir, hir, hirself.
- Sullivan, Caitlin and Kate Bornstein. Nearly Roadkill (1 June 1996). Serpent’s Tail. p. 10. [Includes sentences with ze/hir pronouns, such as “But I do know what sex ze is. It used to influence me. But now I talk to hir like a normal person. I mean, without thinking about what ze is” and “I don’t know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online”.]
- ISBN-10: 1852424184
- ISBN-13: 9781852424183
- Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (18 December 1997). Routledge. p. 130. [Includes sentences with ze/hir pronouns, such as “A case in point is Tula, a transgendered woman who for years lived well as a model and actress until ze was outed in both national and international media” and “Words like ‘freak’ became attached to hir name, and I don’t believe ‘brave’ was ever a word the media associated with hir”.]
- ISBN-10: 0415916739
- ISBN-13: 9780415916738
- Feinberg, Leslie. Drag King Dreams (22 March 2006). Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 205 [Includes sentences with ze/hir pronouns, such as “Ze takes my right hand in hirs and folds it into a fist”.]
- ISBN-10: 0786717637
- ISBN-13: 9780786717637
- OCLC: 758797385
- “The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun” (24 January 2010). Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog.
- Lopez, Erika. The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir (12 October 2010). Monster Girl Media. p. 143. [Includes sentences with ze/hir pronouns, such as “Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n’ Fresh Doe”.]
- ISBN-10: 0984401407
- ISBN-13: 9780984401406
- Locke, M. J. Up Against It (15 March 2011). Tor Books. p. 361. [Includes sentences with ze/hir pronouns, such as “Hir face was implacable, but ze dashed away in tears”.]
- ISBN-10: 0765315157
- ISBN-13: 9780765315151
- Poon, Linda. “‘Ze’ or ‘They’? A Guide to Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns” (28 September 2015). Bloomberg CityLab. Bloomberg L.P.
- RECLAIM. “Pronunciations: ze/hir/hirs” (31 July 2016). YouTube.
- Haefele-Thomas, Ardel and Aaron Devor. Transgender: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 346. [Provides the following for ‘Ze/Hir pronouns’: “[t]rans activist, scholar, and author Leslie Feinberg, who felt that the binary categories of ‘she’ and ‘he’ pronouns was [sic] too constricting, invented these terms as a way to denote a non-binary status. These terms are attributed to Feinberg and are an earlier attempt to create gender-neutral pronouns”.]
- Google Books: P3mFDwAAQBAJ
- ISBN-10: 1440856915
- ISBN-13: 9781440856914
- Jones, Christian. “2019-06-03 Updated on Pronouns at Syracuse University” (3 June 2019). Answers - Syracuse University. Syracuse University. Updated 29 October 2020.
Pronouns in Our Community: A Guide from the Office of University Life (December 2019). Columbia University Office of University Life. p. 3. [Provides the pronunciation ‘zee’ for “ze” and “zie”, the pronunciation ‘hear’ for “hir”, the pronunciation ‘hears’ for ‘hirs”, and the pronunciation ‘hearself’ for “hirself”.]
ze, zer, mer, zers, zemself
ze, zer, mer, zers, zerself
ze, zim, zis, zis, zimself
- “The Unsupplied Common Gender Pronoun.” (30 March 1888). The Macon Daily Telegraph. p. 4.
ze, zir, zir, zirs, zirself
- “The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun” (24 January 2010). Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog.
- Poon, Linda. “‘Ze’ or ‘They’? A Guide to Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns” (28 September 2015). Bloomberg CityLab. Bloomberg L.P.
zenana (Urdu: زنانہ)
- Naqvi, Nauman and Hasan Mujtaba. “Two Baluchi Buggas, a Sindhi Zenana, and the Status of Hijras in Contemporary Pakistan” in Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature (February 1997). Edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray. NYU Press. [Uses the spelling “zenana.”]
- ISBN-10: 0814761089, 0814774687
- ISBN-13: 9780814761083, 9780814774687
- OCLC: 808412162
- Wilhelm, Amara Das. Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex: Understanding Homosexuality, Transgender Identity and Intersex Conditions Through Hinduism (21 May 2004). Xlibris Corporation. pp. 217, 524. [Uses the spelling “zenana.”]
- Google Books: iZ5RAAAAQBAJ
- ISBN-10: 145008057X
- ISBN-13: 9781450080576
- Ali, Shainna. “Contemporary Hijra Identity in Guyana: Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations in Hijra Gender Identity” (Spring 2010). University of Central Florida. B.Sc. Thesis. pp. 8-10. [Uses the spelling “zenana.”]
- Boskey, Elizabeth R. and Pamela Klein. “Gender-Affirming Surgeries: Women” (9 April 2021). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. Vol. 1. Edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn. SAGE Publications. p. 336.
- Google Books: ibcKzgEACAAJ
- ISBN-10: 1544393814
- ISBN-13: 9781544393810
- “The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun” (24 January 2010). Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog.
- Poon, Linda. “‘Ze’ or ‘They’? A Guide to Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns” (28 September 2015). Bloomberg CityLab. Bloomberg L.P.
- Jones, Christian. “2019-06-03 Updated on Pronouns at Syracuse University” (3 June 2019). Answers - Syracuse University. Syracuse University. Updated 29 October 2020.
- Pronouns in Our Community: A Guide from the Office of University Life (December 2019). Columbia University Office of University Life. p. 3. [Provides the pronunciation ‘zee’ for “ze” and “zie”, the pronunciation ‘hear’ for “hir”, the pronunciation ‘hears’ for ‘hirs”, and the pronunciation ‘hearself’ for “hirself”.]
- “The Need for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun” (24 January 2010). Gender Neutral Pronoun Blog.
- Poon, Linda. “‘Ze’ or ‘They’? A Guide to Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns” (28 September 2015). Bloomberg CityLab. Bloomberg L.P.
Zyrus, Jake (10 May 1992 – )