transgender

About

A transgender person is someone whose gender identity differs from their assigned gender. The word "transgender" can also be used with reference to community (e.g. the transgender community globally or in a given area) or with regard to various services used specifically by transgender people.

Transgender is often abbreviated as "TG" or shortened to "trans".

Terminology

The quality of being transgender (i.e. the noun form of "transgender") is sometimes referred to as "transgenderism", but this has been problematic in that it "sounds like" a religion or ideology rather than a condition – which, unfortunately, plays into the hands of hatemongers who would like people to believe that it is in fact a choice. Some alternate words which so far have met with approval by members of the trans community include:

transgendency
transgend[e]rity
transgenderosity, transgenderocity
transgenderness, transness
adjectives:
- transgendrous

(Note for eventual genderfluid article: "ambigendrous" as a synonym?)

Pages

/community
/needs
- /hair removal (MtF)
- /hormones
- /surgery
  - facial feminization surgery (MtF)
  - sexual reassignment surgery: see /surgery/FtM, /surgery/MtF
  - FtM
  - MtF
    - voice
  - uterine transplants are still (2022) in the experimental stage
/therapy
- voice (most commonly for MtF, aka vocal feminization therapy)
/transition

There is some ambiguity about whether "SRS" refers to a specific type of procedure or any surgery intended to alleviate gender dysphoria. Tentatively, it's the latter, while GRS (genital reconstruction surgery) is specifically "lower" surgery in both FtM and MtF patients. This area of HTYP needs to be updated to reflect these definitions.

To Do

repost htwiki:gender identity stuff on HTYP as appropriate

Links

Reference

Wikipedia
GLAAD's Transgender Media Program: media resources
Diagnosis and Aetiology update 2012 (PDF)

Projects

Trans Assistance Project

Posts

2016-08-02 Detransition, Desistance, and Disinformation: A Guide for Understanding Transgender Children Debates (by Julia Serano): this is also a good guide to terminology and debates over transgender identity in general

to be filed

http://www.annelawrence.com/
2016-06-10 Amazing Grace: The Gift of a Transgender Child (via)
for Issuepedia:
- 2016-04-25 Do Trans Lives Really Matter?
- 2016-02-02 Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points by Brynn Tannehill