Conversely, some transgender individuals may experience what is known as gender euphoria, a term used to describe a 'positive and exciting feeling of one's gendered self'. However, not all transgender people experience gender dysphoria. Some transgender individuals may experience at least one form of gender dysphoria during their life, usually manifesting as an intense distress with their assigned gender. Transgender people can be binary or non-binary. The realization that their gender is different from what they were assigned can occur as early as three years old or in childhood prior to the onset of puberty. A person's gender identity-their sense of gender-usually develops when they are very young. The birth assignment-generally defaulting to assigned male at birth (AMAB) or assigned female at birth (AFAB)-assumes that the individual's gender identity will correspond to their assigned sex. Infants are assigned a sex that is recorded on their birth certificate, which is usually based only on the appearance of external genitalia. Transgender, often shortened to trans, is an umbrella term that describes an individual whose gender identity differs from their assigned gender at birth (AGAB). 6.2 Comphet (compulsory heterosexuality).6 Miscellaneous common terms and acronyms.3 Sexuality and romanticism-related terms.
