Transgender topics

A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. The opposite of transgender is cisgender, which describes persons whose gender identity matches their assigned sex. Transgender does not have a universally accepted definition, including among researchers; it can function as an umbrella term. The definition given above includes binary trans men and trans women and may also include people who are non-binary or genderqueer.

Transvestism was a medicalized framework primarily used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to classify and explain varied forms of gender-variant expression and behavior. Coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910, the term included a diverse range of phenomena that later came to be understood separately as cross-dressing, aspects of homosexuality, eonism, transsexuality, and transgender identity, but was not limited to any single one of these concepts.

thumb|right|Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones", performed by cross-dressed U.S. Army soldiers (1942) thumb|Frances Benjamin Johnston (right) poses with two cross-dressing friends; the "lady" is identified by Johnston as the illustrator Mills Thompson .

individual whose gender identity is not defined as male or female

classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine

A transsexual person is someone who experiences a gender identity that is inconsistent with their assigned sex or gender, and desires to permanently transition to the sex or gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (including gender affirming therapies, such as hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming surgery) to help them align their body with their identified sex or gender.

state, condition, or behavior in which a person's identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female sex

romantic or sexual attraction toward transgender people

children and adolescents who are transgender

gender system in Bugis society

providing future reproductive opportunities before a medical treatment with known risk of loss of fertility

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