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Outline of transgender topics

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical 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Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises.[3] Psychology, medicine, and social sciences research, aid, or otherwise interact with or study transgender people.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 regarding transgender issues, which can be seen in the articles listed below.[4]

People and behaviour

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Other gender non-conforming behaviour

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In non-Western cultures

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Basic terms

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Sex

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Sexual orientation and behaviour

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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

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Law and rights

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By country

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Discrimination

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Medicine

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Classification and causes

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Sexual diversity studies

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Scholars

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Social transition

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Society

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Art

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Transgender art and artists include:

Media

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Film and television

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Comics

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Books

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  • Herma by MacDonald Harris (ISBN 0-689-11179-7) the tale of a hermaphrodite as the central character, who is transformed from an opera singer (female) to an aviator (male) at the turn of the 20th century into World War One.
  • 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 affirmation surgery.

Sport

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Religion

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Military service

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Gender-variant people or behaviour

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

Religion

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Miscellaneous

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References

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