List of transgender-related topics
Transgender is a very complex topic, where definitions are often still up in the air. 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Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises.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 both start from very different points of view, and offer very different perspectives and use a different nomenclature. The difference is mirrored by the attitude of transgendered people towards transgender issues, as can be seen in the articles listed below.
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People and Behaviour
- Transgender
- Transsexual
- Cross-dresser
- Transvestite
- Transvestism
- Drag
- Androgyny
- Genderqueer
- Genderfuck
- Third gender
- Shemale
- Transvestic fetishism
In non-western cultures
- Two-spirit
- Berdache
- Transgender in China
- Evening people
- Fakaleiti
- Galli
- Hijra
- Kathoey
- Kocek
- Sworn virgin
- Takatāpui
- Winkte
- Xanith
Basic Terms
Gender
Sex
- Sex-determination system
- Sex organ or primary sexual characteristics
- Secondary sex characteristics
Intersexual
- 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome
- Hypospadias
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- Swyer syndrome
- Turner's syndrome
Other
- Gender blind
- Gender queer
- Heteronormativity
- LGBT
- Queer
- Third gender
- Transgenderism
- Transphobia
Topics related to transitioning
Social
Relating to medical treatment
- Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders
- Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association
- Gender reassignment therapy (compare also Sex change)
Legal aspects
Other
Other related topics
- List of transgender-rights organizations as of 5.1.2005, still a work in progress
- List of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community centers in the USA and Canada
- Violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered
- Genderqueer
- Gender studies
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Feminism
- Transfeminism
- Queer Theory
- Queer studies
- Passing
- The Closet
- Stonewall riots
- Autogynephilia
Other 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.
- Homosexuality and Transgender
- Sexual minority cultures also contains a section on transgender
- LGBT
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Bisexuality
- List of gay-related topics
- Homosexuality
- Heterosexuality
- Sexual identity
- List of gay-related topics
Media
Movies
- Beautiful Boxer
- Boys Don't Cry
- Different For Girls
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Ma Vie en Rose
- Southern Comfort
- The Crying Game
- Soldier's Girl
- Yellow Hair 2
Books
- Transgender Warrior by Leslie Feinberg
- The Transsexual Empire by Janice Raymond
- Masculinities without Men? by Jean Bobby Noble
Other
- The Caste Of The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky: Aghora, the father of the current Metabarons, is a transman.
- Venus Envy by Erin Lindsey, is a webcomic centred around the life of a teenage M2F.