| rdfs:comment | - Transgender characters can be found in:
* Horrifying
* Justified
- Transgender people are people who identify themselves not as the gender they were born as.
- Transgender refers to people who are not comfortable with the gender that society or biology gives them. Some transgendered people feel that they are men trapped in a woman's body. Others feel that they are women trapped inside a man's body. Transgendered people sometimes seek gender reassignment surgery and some are happier after such surgery though not all benefit. Conservatives such as Fred Phelps and Bill O'Reilly hate transgendered people. Conservative traditionalists in general hate transgenders.
- Transgender, as related the the transgender internet community, is the act in which a person of one gender becomes another gender. This can be achieved by physical transformation, crossdressing, body swap, surgery or any other form of role reversal. Transgender media tends to focus on males becoming females and may or may not be complete physical change. It may only document crossdressing, surgery, or even partial changes. It may also be coupled with other transformation fetishes, such as age regression or mannequin or doll transformation. It also tends to feature situational fetishes such as wearing female clothing, being a submissive in bondage, serving as a maid, or occupying one of many stereotypical female gender roles. Most transgender media is erotic, while some is dramatic.
- Transgender has two common definitions: 1.
* As a synonym for transsexual. 2.
* Someone who does not conform to gender norms, anyone whose appearance since birth has neither been consistently male nor female. Thus it includes transsexuals, drag queens and drag kings, the intersexed, transvestite fetishists, and androgynes.
- Since and are frequently associated or conflated in most societies, including Western ones, babies with penises are declared to be baby boys and babies with vaginas are declared to be baby girls. Sometimes this gets difficult, of course. But "transgender" is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to all people whose genders don't match the ones they were designated. This includes (the most commonly depicted) "MTF" women who are initially declared male, "FTM" men who are initially declared female, "genderqueer" or "nonbinary-gendered" people who are neither men or women (or both, and more), and even people who don't have any gender at all.
- A transgender person has a mental gender that does not match the gender assigned to them at birth. Transgender people exist in both real life and in fanfiction. Badfic often includes plenty of trans!fail, usually involving the idea that the character is "really" their assigned gender, rather than their mental gender. Some guidelines:
- Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Transgender is the state of one's gender identity (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) not matching one's assigned sex (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex). Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise definition for transgender remains in flux, but includes:
- Transgender is a term used by some people whose gender does not match the one they were assigned at birth. Its opposite is "cisgender". Being transgender is an identity which can intersect with gender and other identities. For instance, trans women experience forms of oppression that cis women typically don't experience, as well as experiencing most forms of oppression that cis women in the same culture who have similar intersecting identities do experience.
- A popular image of transgender people is that of a "woman trapped in a man's body" and vice versa, but this isn't entirely accurate. A more accurate description is that transgender people are born into bodies which society does not associate with their gender, or were assigned a sex that does not match their gender. People whose bodies are recognized in a way which corresponds to their gender identity are referred to as cisgender.
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| abstract | - Transgender is a term used by some people whose gender does not match the one they were assigned at birth. Its opposite is "cisgender". Being transgender is an identity which can intersect with gender and other identities. For instance, trans women experience forms of oppression that cis women typically don't experience, as well as experiencing most forms of oppression that cis women in the same culture who have similar intersecting identities do experience. Not everyone whose gender does not match the one they were assigned at birth uses the term "transgender" to refer to themselves; some people describe themselves as "transsexual" or simply "trans". Avoid describing an individual as "transgender" or "transsexual" unless you know which labels they use to describe themselves. Alternatives for referring to groups of people include the adjectives "trans", "gender non-conforming", or "gender-variant"; or the noun phrase "members of gender, romantic and sexual minorities".
- Transgender characters can be found in:
* Horrifying
* Justified
- Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Transgender is the state of one's gender identity (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) not matching one's assigned sex (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex). Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise definition for transgender remains in flux, but includes:
* "Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these."
* "People who were assigned a sex, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves."
* "Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the sex (and assumed gender) one was assigned at birth." A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional gender continuum, or exist outside of it as other, agender, genderqueer, or third gender. Transgender people may also identify as bigender, or along several places on either the traditional transgender continuum, or the more encompassing continuums which have been developed in response to the significantly more detailed studies done in recent years. Furthermore, many transgender people go through a period of identity development, marked by increases in understanding of one's self-image, self-reflection, and self-expression. More specifically, the degree to which individuals feel genuine, authentic, and comfortable within their external appearance and accept their genuine identity is referred to as transgender congruence.
- A transgender person has a mental gender that does not match the gender assigned to them at birth. Transgender people exist in both real life and in fanfiction. Badfic often includes plenty of trans!fail, usually involving the idea that the character is "really" their assigned gender, rather than their mental gender. Some guidelines:
* The mental gender, not the assigned gender, is the person's true gender. That means (if you think about it) that they are not actually "male trapped in a female body"—they are male; so their body is male even though it is atypical for a male (or vice versa).
* Grammatically, pronouns that match the mental gender make the most sense, whether or not they have made any physical modifications.
* Having someone find out the person they are dating is trans, recoiling in horror, and having the story playing it as funny? Not cool. Not cool at all.
* The opposite of trans is "cis". No need to make up any more words than we have to.
* Transman/transwoman work well if you have to specify, but there's usually no reason not to just refer to them as simply "man" or "woman". Some trans people like to use the acronyms FTM and AFAB (female to male; assigned female at birth) or MTF and AMAB (male to female; assigned male at birth) to make the distinction.
- Since and are frequently associated or conflated in most societies, including Western ones, babies with penises are declared to be baby boys and babies with vaginas are declared to be baby girls. Sometimes this gets difficult, of course. But "transgender" is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to all people whose genders don't match the ones they were designated. This includes (the most commonly depicted) "MTF" women who are initially declared male, "FTM" men who are initially declared female, "genderqueer" or "nonbinary-gendered" people who are neither men or women (or both, and more), and even people who don't have any gender at all. Some activists' definitions stretch the definition to include everyone who doesn't conform to gender expectations, whether expectations about anatomy or behavior -- this broader definition would include crossdressers who otherwise still agree with whatever gender labels they got at birth. There's also academic and activist debate over whether some non-Western societies' "third genders" or "third sexes" -- categories which are traditional but also not considered "male" or "female" -- should be counted under "transgender"... but this isn't an Anthropology of Gender course. Being transgender is frequently associated with a symptom known as gender dysphoria. It manifests differently between individuals, but generally speaking, it involves a sense of dissatisfaction with one's physical sex (hence "dysphoria"), and a wish to have a body of a different sex. Some symptoms that can occur but are, once again, not universal, include the feeling of "being in a wrong body", evaluating one's body by the standards of the other sex (even subconsciously), cross-gender dreams, transformation fantasies, and so on. Opinions are divided on whether gender dysphoria is inborn or a result of personality development. To the big picture, it is largely irrelevant. It can manifest at different ages, although subconscious manifestations of dysphoria can at times be traced to the time before conscious self-discovery. Consider the typical involuntary Gender Bender plot (such as in Ranma 1/2, or with Roy in Order of the Stick): the victim often outright hates or is ashamed by their new body, experiencing discomfort with it and seeking ways to remove the "curse". This is how many cisgender people might react, while many transgender people would consider the "curse" a blessing. In fact, transition (see below) exists exactly because there's no convenient way in real life to quickly change a human's physical sex. If there was one, transition would largely be limited to social adaptation to the new gender role. Accepting one's own internal gender identity, or even acknowledging its existence, might take a while, going through stages of denial. This period seems to receive the least coverage in mainstream fiction, which is primarily concerned instead with either the start or the end (or near-end) of the path. An interesting phenomenon can take place that's essentially the reverse of gender dysphoria, which one may call "gender euphoria". It seems under-represented in fiction, if represented at all: Man I Feel Like a Woman could be considered The Theme Park Version, but gender euphoria doesn't require any physical changes to actually occur. Transition, the transgender "journey", is a twofold process, and in fact not universal -- some choose not to undergo it at all. One side of it is socialization: learning and adopting the social patterns of the target gender, which by itself becomes progressively easier in the modern society as the gender roles themselves become blurred -- however, with it come numerous issues of acceptance versus discrimination, as well as legal issues, of both of which a lot has been written in detail. The other side is physical change -- becoming closer in appearance and... function... to the target sex -- which can be motivated not just by desire of social acceptance, but also by psychological issues of self-esteem, and yes, the "wrong body" feeling. Much is written in details about physical transition as well, involving voice training/alteration, sex-specific steps (e.g. hair or breast removal), the proverbial hormone therapy, and the even more proverbial "op" -- that is, genital surgery. Two myths need to be debunked there. First, hormones aren't Applied Phlebotinum -- they can only do so much. While they do cause things like breast growth and thinning of body hair for trans women, or on the contrary, growth of body hair for trans men, as well as some voice changes and redistribution of body fat -- they don't magically alter the skeleton to adjust body shape, nor do they remove facial hair, which has to be done separately. Some skeletal adjustments do happen - the skeleton is a living part of the body, after all, and there is increasing evidence that it continues to develop and change through adult life, but more slowly and on a much more subtle level - but they take years and may never have more than a slight visual effect. Finally: while the operation may be required for a legal identity change (depending on the geographical area), it's otherwise optional, and when the person does choose to undergo it, it always comes last, after a period of living under the new identity. Also, keep in mind that there is no one specific procedure. Terms like pre-op and post-op typically refer to genital reconstructive surgery (GRS or SRS), but there are a variety of surgical procedures that trans people may pursue- for example, many trans men find that having their breasts removed is a more important step than getting work done below the belt. Easy Sex Change only exists in TV Land. Often these two terms get conflated and confused but with good reason. A common perception is that transsexual people are those who have surgery and transgender people do not. While the former is mostly accurate the latter is not always so. There are people who view the term transsexual as too stigmatizing and argue that it contributes to the conflation between gender and biological sexual organs and avoid it, even if they choose to have surgery. Sexual orientation can be difficult to describe in a binary, ciscentric framework. Traditional labels, like "heterosexual," "Homosexual" and "Bisexual", are based on the gender binary, and break down when the very framework of gender is in question, although many transgender people use them for themselves nonetheless. Without getting too philosophical, however, they are like everyone in this respect -- they may have a sexual preference for males, females, both or neither (or for wider or narrower sections of the gender spectrum), regardless of the direction of their identity. There are proposed terms for sexual orientation that would help resolve the ambiguities, but they are yet to meet universal recognition. It is worth noting, however, that for some trans people, their sexual preferences change as they go through transition. Sometimes this is the result of exploring the nature of gender and sexuality; sometimes this is due to resolving discomfort with one's own sexuality; sometimes this is just one of the strange things that hormones will do. And sometimes, none of this happens, and they maintain the same sexual identity no matter what alteration might occur to their body.
- Transgender people are people who identify themselves not as the gender they were born as.
- Transgender refers to people who are not comfortable with the gender that society or biology gives them. Some transgendered people feel that they are men trapped in a woman's body. Others feel that they are women trapped inside a man's body. Transgendered people sometimes seek gender reassignment surgery and some are happier after such surgery though not all benefit. Conservatives such as Fred Phelps and Bill O'Reilly hate transgendered people. Conservative traditionalists in general hate transgenders.
- A popular image of transgender people is that of a "woman trapped in a man's body" and vice versa, but this isn't entirely accurate. A more accurate description is that transgender people are born into bodies which society does not associate with their gender, or were assigned a sex that does not match their gender. People whose bodies are recognized in a way which corresponds to their gender identity are referred to as cisgender. Some transgender people feel that way from a very young age, while others go through a period of questioning before realizing they are transgender. Transgender people can be men, women or non-binary. They can have any sexual orientation, express their gender through their appearance in any way, and may or may not fit into society's views of gender.
- Transgender, as related the the transgender internet community, is the act in which a person of one gender becomes another gender. This can be achieved by physical transformation, crossdressing, body swap, surgery or any other form of role reversal. Transgender media tends to focus on males becoming females and may or may not be complete physical change. It may only document crossdressing, surgery, or even partial changes. It may also be coupled with other transformation fetishes, such as age regression or mannequin or doll transformation. It also tends to feature situational fetishes such as wearing female clothing, being a submissive in bondage, serving as a maid, or occupying one of many stereotypical female gender roles. Most transgender media is erotic, while some is dramatic.
- Transgender has two common definitions: 1.
* As a synonym for transsexual. 2.
* Someone who does not conform to gender norms, anyone whose appearance since birth has neither been consistently male nor female. Thus it includes transsexuals, drag queens and drag kings, the intersexed, transvestite fetishists, and androgynes.
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