Transgender people are those who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
Transgender people are sometimes called transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one gender to another.
2. TRANSGENDER
• Transgender people are those who have a gender identity
or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
• Transgender people are sometimes called transsexual if
they desire medical assistance to transition from one
gender to another.
3. • Transgender is also an umbrella term: in addition to including
people whose gender identity is the opposite of their assigned sex
(trans men and trans women), it may include people who are not
exclusively masculine or feminine (people who are genderqueer or
non-binary, including bigender, pangender, genderfluid, or
agender).
• Other definitions of transgender also include people who belong to
a third gender, or conceptualize transgender people as a third
gender. Infrequently, the term transgender is defined very broadly
to include cross-dressers, regardless of their gender identity.
4. BIGENDER
• Bigender, bi-gender or dual gender is a gender identity that includes any two
gender identities and behaviors, possibly depending on context.
• Some bigender individuals express two distinct personas, which may be
feminine, masculine, agender, androgyne, or other gender identities; others find
that they identify as two genders simultaneously.
• It is recognized by the american psychological association (APA) as a subset of
the transgender group.
• A 1999 survey conducted by the san francisco department of public health
observed that, among the transgender community, less than 3% of those who
were assigned male at birth and less than 8% of those who were assigned
female at birth identified as bigender.
5. PANGENDER
• Pangender is a non-binary gender defined as being more than one
gender. A pangender person may consider themselves a member
of all genders.
• the prefix pan is greek and means "all".
• pangender is a kind of third gender, much like bigender,
trigender, or genderqueer.
• pangender individuals may identify with gender inclusive or
gender neutral pronouns instead of gendered ones (such as
she/he or her/him).
6. • Being transgender is independent of sexual orientation:
transgender people may identify as heterosexual,
homosexual, bisexual, asexual, or may decline to label
their sexual orientation.
• The term transgender is also distinguished from
intersex, a term that describes people born with physical
sex characteristics "that do not fit typical binary notions
of male or female bodies".
• The counterpart of transgender is cisgender, which
describes persons whose gender identity or expression
matches their assigned sex.
7. INTERSEX
• Intersex people are born with any of several variations in sex
characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or
genitals that, according to the UN office of the high commissioner
for human rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or
female bodies".
• Such variations may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations
of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than xy-
male and xx-female.
8. • Intersex people were previously referred to as
hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs", or congenitally
"frigid".
• Such terms have fallen out of favor; in particular, the
term "hermaphrodite" is considered to be misleading,
stigmatizing, and scientifically specious.
• Medical description of intersex traits as disorders of sex
development has been controversial since the label was
introduced in 2006.
9. CISGENDER
• Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) is a term for
people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were
assigned at birth.
• Cisgender may also be defined as those who have "a gender
identity or perform a gender role society considers
appropriate for one's sex".
• It is the opposite of the term transgender.
10. Transgender Congruence.
• The degree to which individuals feel genuine, authentic, and
comfortable within their external appearance and accept their
genuine identity has been called transgender congruence.
• Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria, and some
seek medical treatments such as hormone replacement therapy,
sex reassignment surgery, or psychotherapy.
• Not all transgender people desire these treatments, and some
cannot undergo them for financial or medical reasons.
11. EVOLUTION OF TRANSGENDER TERMINOLOGY
• Psychiatrist John F. Oliven of columbia university coined the term
transgender in his 1965 reference work sexual hygiene and
pathology, writing that the term which had previously been used,
transsexualism, "is misleading; actually, 'transgenderism' is
meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary
transvestism.“
• the term transgender was then popularized with varying
definitions by various transgender, transsexual, and transvestite
people, including virginia prince, who used it in the december
1969 issue of transvestia, a national magazine for cross dressers
she founded.
12. • By the mid-1970s both trans-gender and trans people were in use
as umbrella terms,[note 1] and 'transgenderist' was used to
describe people who wanted to live cross-gender without sex
reassignment surgery (SRS).
• By 1976, transgenderist was abbreviated as TG in educational
materials.
• By 1984, the concept of a "transgender community" had
developed, in which transgender was used as an umbrella term. in
1985, richard elkins established the "trans-gender archive" at the
university of ulster.
13. • By 1992, the international conference on transgender law and
employment policy defined transgender as an expansive umbrella
term including "transsexuals, transgenderists, cross dressers",
and anyone transitioning.
• Leslie Feinberg's pamphlet, "transgender liberation: A movement
whose time has come", circulated in 1992, identified transgender
as a term to unify all forms of gender nonconformity; in this way
transgender has become synonymous with queer.
14. QUEER
• Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who
are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender.
• Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be used
pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships
in the late 19th century.
• Beginning in the late 1980s, queer scholars and activists began to
reclaim the word to establish community and assert an identity
distinct from the gay identity.
• People who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader
and deliberately ambiguous alternative to the label LGBT may
describe themselves as queer.
15. • Queer is also increasingly used to describe non-normative[note 1]
(i.E. Anti-heteronormative and anti-homonormative) identities and
politics.
• Academic disciplines such as queer theory and queer studies
share a general opposition to binarism, normativity, and a
perceived lack of intersectionality within the mainstream LGBT
movement.
• Queer arts, queer cultural groups, and queer political groups are
examples of expressions of queer identities.
16. TRANSVESTITE OR CROSS-DRESSER
• A transvestite is a person who cross-dresses, or dresses
in clothes typically associated with the gender opposite
the one they were assigned at birth.
• The term transvestite is used as a synonym for the term
cross-dresser, although cross-dresser is generally
considered the preferred term.
• The term cross-dresser is not exactly defined in the
relevant literature.
17. • Michael A. Gilbert, professor at the department of philosophy, York University,
Toronto, offers this definition: "[A cross-dresser] is a person who has an
apparent gender identification with one sex, and who has and certainly has
been birth-designated as belonging to [that] sex, but who wears the clothing of
the opposite sex because it is that of the opposite sex.”
• This definition excludes people "who wear opposite sex clothing for other
reasons," such as "those female impersonators who look upon dressing as
solely connected to their livelihood, actors undertaking roles, individual males
and females enjoying a masquerade, and so on. These individuals are cross
dressing but are not cross dressers.“
• Cross-dressers may not identify with, want to be, or adopt the behaviours or
practices of the opposite gender and generally do not want to change their
bodies medically.
• The majority of cross-dressers identify as heterosexual.
• People who cross-dress in public sometimes may have a desire to pass as the
opposite gender, so as not to be detected as a cross-dresser.
18. DRAG KINGS AND QUEENS
• Drag is a term applied to clothing and makeup worn on special
occasions for performing or entertaining, unlike those who are
transgender or who cross-dress for other reasons.
• Drag performance includes overall presentation and behavior in
addition to clothing and makeup.
• Drag can be theatrical, comedic, or grotesque. Drag queens have
been considered caricatures of women by second-wave feminism.
19. • Drag artists have a long tradition in LGBT culture.
• Generally the term drag queen covers men doing female drag, drag
king covers women doing male drag, and faux queen covers women
doing female drag.
• Nevertheless, there are drag artists of all genders and sexualities who
perform for various reasons.
• Some drag performers, transvestites, and people in the gay
community have embraced the pornographically-derived term tranny
to describe drag queens or people who engage in transvestism or
cross-dressing; however, this term is widely considered offensive if
applied to transgender people.
20. LGBT COMMUNITY
• The concepts of gender identity and transgender identity differ
from that of sexual orientation.
• sexual orientation describes an individual's enduring physical,
romantic, emotional, or spiritual attraction to another person,
while gender identity is one's personal sense of being a man or a
woman
21. • Transgender people have more or less the same variety of sexual
orientations as cisgender people.
• In the past, the terms homosexual and heterosexual were incorrectly
used to label transgender individuals' sexual orientation based on their
birth sex.
• Professional literature now uses terms such as attracted to men
(androphilic), attracted to women (gynephilic), attracted to both
(bisexual) or attracted to neither (asexual) to describe a person's sexual
orientation without reference to their gender identity.
• Therapists are coming to understand the necessity of using terms with
respect to their clients' gender identities and preferences.
• For example, a person who is assigned male at birth, transitions to
female, and is attracted to men would be identified as heterosexual.
22. • Despite the distinction between sexual orientation and gender,
throughout history the gay, lesbian, and bisexual subculture was often
the only place where gender-variant people were socially accepted in the
gender role they felt they belonged to; especially during the time when
legal or medical transitioning was almost impossible.
• Today, members of the transgender community often continue to
struggle to remain part of the same movement as lesbian, gay, and
bisexual people and to be included in rights protections. In addition, the
role of the transgender community in the history of LGBT rights is often
overlooked, as shown in transforming history.
