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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.
'''Transgender''' or '''trans''' is an umbrella term covering all [[Gender identity|gender identities]] or [[Gender expression|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 nonbinary people refer to themselves as transgender.


==Symbols==
==Symbols==
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==External Links==
==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]
* [https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ Digital Transgender Archive]


===Further reading===
===Further reading===
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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.
===See also===
*[[Cisgender]]
*[[Transsexual]]
*[[Transgenderist]]


[[Category:Umbrella Terms]]
[[Category:Umbrella Terms]]
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