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| 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. | |||
| name = Dalton | |||
| age = 15 | |||
| 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 [[Sex#gender assigned 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. | '''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 [[Sex#gender assigned 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. | ||
===External Links | ==Symbols== | ||
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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. | |||
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). | |||
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== | |||
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==External Links== | |||
* [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/popularresources/glbtrt_trans_08.pdf TRANScending Identities: A Bibliography of Resources on Transgender and Intersex Topics] | * [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/popularresources/glbtrt_trans_08.pdf TRANScending Identities: A Bibliography of Resources on Transgender and Intersex Topics] | ||
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* Stryker, Susan. ''Transgender History''. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008. Print. | * Stryker, Susan. ''Transgender History''. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008. Print. | ||
* Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. ''The Transgender Studies Reader''. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print. | * Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. ''The Transgender Studies Reader''. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print. | ||
[[Category:Identities]] [[Category:Umbrella Terms]] | [[Category:Identities]] [[Category:Umbrella Terms]] | ||
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