ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides an overall picture of the interactions of language, gender, and sexuality. Language is a central part aspect of the ways that gender/sexuality variability is performed, created, and even policed. Language structures not only how people talk about these categories, but also how those categories fit into our expectations about sexuality and intimacy, with some kinds of language reflecting assumptions about unmarked sexual and intimate relations, and displaying those that a community finds marked. Gender/sexuality in language is something that is performed, but that means that it also has to be recognized. The study of Trans-identified people relates to one important trend in language and gender/sexuality studies, namely how the use of language is related to physicality, both the ways bodies and language are used together and how language helps to structure the physical.
