Admirer: An individual who enjoys the company of TGs.
BBL: Chat room abbreviation for Be Back Later
BRB: Chat room abbreviation for Be Right Back
Being Read: Being recognized as a man wearing women's clothing.
BITCH: A term of endearment used by GOOD T-Girlfriends after a particularly good verbal "zinger". (Make sure you know the person VERY well or you're likely to get your eyes scratched out.)
Bottom: One who enjoys the *passive* role in sex.
Cache' Sexe: A 19th century Circus term for a tight fitting undergarment used to hide, minimize, or control *genital bulges*. See Gaff and Tucking.
CD: Cross Dresser
Coming Out: A person admitting that they are TG or Gay to one or more other people.
Dom: Dominant
Drab: A TG wearing "male" clothes.
DQ: Drag Queen or Drag Performer
Drag Mom: An honorific title used by a TG or DQ who helps *dress up* another person for the first time. A Drag Performer mentor.
Drag Daughter: The title given to a beginning dresser after being *dressed up* for the first time by a more experienced TG or DQ...ie: her Drag Mom.
EG: Chat room abbreviation for Evil Grin.
En Femme': A TG dressed as a woman.
Face: Drag Performer term for being in make up.
FT: Full Time. (as in living as a woman full time)
*G*: Talia's chat room abbreviation for Grin.
Gaff: A tight fitting undergarment used to hide, minimize, or control *genital bulges*. See Cache' Sexe and Tucking.
GF: Chat room abbreviation for Girl Friend
GG: Genetic Girl
Girrl: A *cutesy* term used to distinguish between GGs and TGs.
Goddess, The: Talia's wife.
Leg-Humper: Chat room lingo for an *Admirer gone wrong*. Often a lurker soliciting cyber sex or other sex.
LOL: Chat room abbreviation for Laughing Out Loud.
HRT: Hormone Replacement Therapy.
Outing: The act of a MORON who tells one or more people that another person is TG or Gay, when it's not their place to.
Painting: Drag performers term for applying make up.
Pass: Believably and successfully posing as a member of the opposite gender.
Post-Op: State of being for a Transsexual AFTER Sex Reassignment Surgery.
Pre-Op: State of being for a Transsexual BEFORE Sex Reassignment Surgery.
Purge: The act of a TG getting rid of all their *girl* things. Most TGs will purge at some point in their lives in an attempt to avoid the desire to dress. This is usually not successful and ends up being quite expensive as those items will have to be replaced when the individual starts dressing again. If a TG gets *the urge to purge*, the best idea is to box the items up and give them to a TG friend to keep. They will understand.
ROFLMAO: Chat room abbreviation for Rolling on the Floor Laughing My Ass Off.
*S*: Chat room abbreviation for Smile
Shemale: A stage 1 Transsexual usually in the employ of the Adult Entertainment Industry. (Only call a TG a *Shemale* if she refers to herself as such FIRST.)
SO: Significant Other (lover, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, person with whom one has a long term relationship)
SRS: Sex Reassignment Surgery
Sub: Submissive
Switch: One who enjoys being EITHER top or bottom, dom or sub.
TC: Chat room abbreviation for Take Care.
TG: Transgendered
T-Girl: A Transgendered individual.
Top: One who enjoys the *active* role in sex.
Transforming: A TG taking on the outward characteristics of a woman. IE: Putting on a dress, wig, makeup etc. This may also include a shift in mannerisms, mental attitude and/or persona.
Troll: A voyeuristic person who lurks in a chat room who may send unwanted or unsolicited private messages of a sexual or violent nature.
TS: Transsexual
Tucking: Hiding male genitalia. This is done several ways depending on how God has blessed or cursed you. The basic idea is to gently push the testicles up inside the body and then to pull the penis back between the legs giving a more *feminine* profile. Everything is then taped in place (not MY method of choice, mind you) with surgical tape (not DUCT TAPE. DUCT TAPE will remove skin...OUCH!!!) or held in place with a tight fitting undergarment (a gaff, Cache' Sexe, Dance Belt or several pairs of panties or pantyhose).
TV: Transvestite
TV or TS Lesbian: I still have to think about this one every time I see it...*G*. This is a Transgendered individual who is only sexually interested in GGs. However, this will sometimes also include other TGs. If in doubt...ASK!
WB: Chat room abbreviation for Welcome Back.
WEG: Chat room abbreviation for Wicked Evil Grin.
WG: Chat room abbreviation for Wicked Grin.
