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“Undetectable = Untransmissible”, a slogan that reminds us that when the amount of HIV present in a person’s blood is too low to detect, it is also too low to transmit during sex.

Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine (or a mishmosh of both), in dress, appearance, behavior or identity, either by choice or by circumstance.

When menstruation begins, usually during puberty; a first period.

Isabel Ravenna is a culture journalist whose work appears in Nat Geo, Business Insider, Complex and others. She also writes and edits The Ravenna Report.

Having more than one sexual or love partner at a time.

The general region of the body between the anus and the testes or the anus and the vaginal opening. Some people call the perineum the “tain’t.”