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| | Transgender has two common definitions; both of them are forms of gender confusion: |
| | quote = I discovered that I was transgender after joking around in the art room in 8th grade, (when I was 12) and one of my friends, who was also LGBTQ+, said that the charcoal on my face looked like makeup that a transgender guy would wear. I was stunned into silence.
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| | age = 15
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| | identity = nonbinary transmasculine
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| '''Transgender''' is an umbrella term covering all gender identities or expressions that transgress or transcend society’s rules and concepts of gender. To be trans usually means to identify as a gender other than the [[Assigned gender at birth|gender one was assigned at birth]]. The category of transgender includes people who have the [[binary genders|binary gender]] identities of female ([[transgender women]]) or male ([[transgender men]]), and is often framed solely in binary terms. The transgender umbrella does include people with [[nonbinary]] gender identities, but not all non-binary people refer to themselves as transgender.
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| ==Symbols==
| | Similar to transsexual, but without having had a sex-change operation. |
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| | As a synonym for transsexual. |
| A TransGender-Symbol Plain2.png|The transgender symbol, made of a combination of male (Mars), female (Venus), and a mix of both. Colors are optional.
| | 61-98% of young people outgrow their gender confusion if allowed to progress naturally.[1] |
| Trans Pride Flag.png|The transgender pride flag, designed by trans woman Monica Helms in 1999, with stripes representing male (blue), female (pink), and other or transitioning (white).
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| Jennifer Pellinen Transgender Flag.svg|In 2002 Jennifer Pellinen created a transgender flag <ref>{{cite web|title=Transgender flags|url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/qq-tgf.html|website=Flags of the World}}</ref> Pink & blue stripes: female and male. The middle three purple stripes represent the diversity of the transgender community and genders other than female and male.<ref>[http://www.transflag.org/info.html Transgender Flag info]</ref>
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| ==References==
| | The term "transgender" is not to be confused with a whole host of "gender identities" (which liberals see as separate from biological sex) under the umbrella of genderqueer, which includes, besides transgender: |
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| ==External Links==
| | Bigender (both man and woman) |
| * [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/popularresources/glbtrt_trans_08.pdf TRANScending Identities: A Bibliography of Resources on Transgender and Intersex Topics]
| | Agender (neither man nor woman) |
| | | Genderfluid (alternating between genders) |
| ===Further reading===
| | Third gender (found in Indian culture, some American Indian cultures, and also invented by modern-day people) |
| * Girshick, Lori B. ''Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men''. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. Print.
| | Reputable scientific & social organizations which affirm the validity of transgender people include the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association. This shows lefitst bias in these organizations. |
| * Stryker, Susan. ''Transgender History''. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008. Print.
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| * Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. ''The Transgender Studies Reader''. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print.
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