Outline of transgender topics

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The following outline offers an overview and guide to transgender topics.

The term "transgender" is multi-faceted and complex, especially where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. While often the best way to find out how people identify themselves is to ask them, not all persons who might be thought of as falling under the transgender 'umbrella' identify as such.[1] Transgender can also be distinguished from intersex, a term for people born with physical sex characteristics "that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".[2]

Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises.[3] Psychology, medicine, and social sciences research, aid, or otherwise interact with or study about transgender people. Each field starts from a different point of view, offers different perspectives, and uses different nomenclature. This difference is mirrored by the attitude of transgender people as regards transgender issues, which can be seen in the articles listed below.[4]

People and behaviour[]

In non-Western cultures[]

Basic terms[]

Sex[]

  • Sex assignment
    • Assigned female at birth
    • Assigned male at birth
  • Sexual characteristics
    • Sex organ or primary sexual characteristics
    • Secondary sex characteristics
  • Sex-determination system

Sexual orientation and behaviour[]

Sexual orientation and behaviour are independent from gender identity; since both are often mentioned together or even confused, some relevant topics are mentioned here. The first article elaborates on this question.

Other[]

Transitioning[]

Social[]

Medical treatment[]

Law and rights[]

By country[]

Discrimination[]

Medicine[]

Classification and causes[]

Sexual diversity studies[]

Scholars[]

  • Judith Butler
  • Leslie Feinberg
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Susan Stryker

Society[]

Art[]

Transgender art and artists include:

  • New Media Art:
    • Sandy Stone (artist) – ACT Lab
    • Shu Lea Cheang – Brandon
  • Performance:
  • Music:
  • Photography:
    • Claude Cahun
    • Loren Cameron
    • Yishay Garbasz
  • Film:
    • Barbara Hammer – Lover Other

Media[]

Film and television[]

  • List of transgender characters in film and television
  • Cross-dressing in film and television


Comics[]

Books[]

  • Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. one of the stories revolve around a group of transvestites, led by a girl named Georgette.
  • Masculinities Without Men? (ISBN 0-7748-0997-3) by Jean Bobby Noble
  • Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series includes a transgender person as a central character.
  • Luna (ISBN 0-316-73369-5) by Julie Anne Peters
  • Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
  • Becoming, a gender flip book (ISBN 1935613006) by Yishay Garbasz a flip book with images of the artist one year before and one year after her gender afirmation surgery.

Sport[]

  • Transgender people in sports
  • Sex verification in sports

Religion[]

  • Transgender people and religion
    • Christianity and transgender

Military service[]

  • Transgender people and military service
  • Transgender personnel in the United States military

Gender-variant people or behaviour[]

Many other terms describe gender-variant people or behaviour, without the people being described necessarily being transgender:

  • Amazon
  • Eunuch
  • Butch and femme
  • Tomboy

Religion[]

  • The cult of Aphroditus, the androgynous Amathusian Aphrodite in Greek mythology.
  • Galli, the transgender priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis.
  • The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of (mostly) gay male nuns who take vows to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
  • Skoptsy, religious sect in early 20th Century imperial Russia that practiced castration and mastectomies.

Miscellaneous[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sally Hines; Tam Sanger, eds. (2010). Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity. Routledge. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-415-99930-4.
  2. ^ "Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex" (PDF). United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  3. ^ Lev, Arlene Istar (2004). Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families. Routledge. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-7890-21175.
  4. ^ Ruthellen Josselson; Michele Harway, eds. (2012). Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles. Oxford University Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-19-973207-4.
  5. ^ "Ryan Cassata – the Artist and Activist | Ryancassata.com".
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