Outline of transgender topics
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Transgender is a complex topic, where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. Usually, the only way to find out how exactly people identify themselves is to ask them, and sometimes, transgender people either cannot or will not define themselves any more specifically than transgender, queer, or genderqueer.
Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises. Not only psychology and medicine, but also social sciences deal with transgender people, and each starts from a very different point of view, offers very different perspectives, and uses a different nomenclature. The difference is mirrored by the attitude of transgender people towards transgender issues, as can be seen in the articles listed below.
People and behaviour
- Transgender
- Transsexual
- Cross-dressing
- Transvestism
- Drag
- Androgyny
- Genderqueer
- Genderfuck
- Packing (phallus)
- Shemale
- Third gender
- Transvestic fetishism
In non-Western cultures
- Two-Spirit/"Berdache" (North America)
- Bacchá (Central Asia)
- Bakla (Philippines)
- Transgender in China
- Eunuch
- Evening people (India)
- Fakaleiti (Tonga)
- Fa'afafine (Polynesia)
- Galli (ancient Rome)
- Hijra
- Transsexuality in Iran
- Kathoey (Thailand)
- Acault (Burma)
- Meti (Nepal)
- Maknyah (Malaysia)
- Transgender people in Singapore
- Sworn virgin (Balkan)
- Takatāpui (Maori)
- Waria (Indonesia)
- Winkte (Lakota, North America)
- Khanith (Arabia)
- Newhalf (ニューハーフ) (Japan)
Basic terms
- Sexual characteristics
- Sex organ or primary sexual characteristics
- Secondary sex characteristics
- Sex-determination system
- History of intersex surgery
- 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome
- Hypospadias
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- Swyer syndrome
- Turner's syndrome
- Hermaphrodite
- Chimerism
Other
Topics related to transitioning
Social
Relating to medical treatment
- Standards of care for gender identity disorders
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health (formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association)
- Etiology of Transsexualism
- Gender reassignment therapy (compare also Sex change)
Legal aspects
Queer studies
- Gender studies
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Anima (Jung)
- Feminine essence theory of transsexuality
- Feminism
- Transfeminism
- Queer Theory
- Queer studies
- Autogynephilia
Media
Film and television
- Transgender in film and television
- Category:Transgender and transsexual actors
- Cross-dressing in film and television
Web Comics
Books
- Lannie! My Journey from Man to Woman (SterlingHouse Publisher) by Lannie Rose
- Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
- The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey
- Transgender Warriors (ISBN 0-8070-7941-3) by Leslie Feinberg
- The Transsexual Empire (ISBN 0-8077-6272-5) by Janice Raymond
- Masculinities Without Men? (ISBN 0-7748-0997-3) by Jean Bobby Noble
- Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices (ISBN 0-7619-1711-X) by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis and Friedemann Pfäfflin
- Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" includes a transgendered person as a central character.
- Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities by Will Roscoe
- Latin American Male Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray
- Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature by Stephen O. Murray
- Pacific Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray
- Transgender Good News by Pat Conover. New Wineskins Press.
- Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore
- Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adults by Ray Blanchard and Betty Steiner
Miscellaneous
- List of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community centers in the USA and Canada
- Violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered
- Stonewall riots
- Compton's Cafeteria riot
- Transgender Pride flag
Gender-variant people or behaviour
Many other terms describe gender-variant people or behaviour, without the people being described necessarily being transgender.
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.
- Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures also contains a section on transgender
- Sexual identity
- LGBT
- Heterosexuality
Religion
- Ardhanari, the androgynous aspect of Shiva in Hinduism
- The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of (mostly) gay male nuns who take vows to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
External links
- Fictionmania is a non-commercial website collecting and archiving stories, poems, and essays exploring gender.
- The Caste Of The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky: Aghora, the father of the current Metabarons, is a transman.
- Gender 3.0, a blog on news, politics and culture viewed from a transgender perspective.
- The Saga of Tuck by Ellen Hayes is very long work of Internet serial fiction about a teenager discovering his own gender issues.
- Transgender Day of Remembrance Webcomics Project organised by Jenn Dolari
- Venus Envy by Erin Lindsey, is a webcomic centred around the life of a teenage MTF.