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Transgender means having a gender identity that does not correspond to the sex that is on the person’s birth certificate. A transgender woman means that she identifies as a female, but her assigned sex is male. Many people do not know that there is a difference between gender and sex. Gender is what someone inwardly feels that they are more like male or female. Some people are gender fluid, meaning that one day they might feel more like a male and one day they might feel more like a female, or they might feel like they don’t fit on the traditional gender spectrum and have a specific gender. Sex is what is what you are assigned at birth and is on your birth certificate. Most people identify with the same sex they were given at birth, which means that they are cisgender (Blythe B.2).

Transgender is a metaphorical umbrella term that covers a person whose self-identification, anatomy, appearance, manner, and/or expression is different from the sex assigned to them at birth and does not fit with societies interpretation for the norm of gender roles. Included in the transgender umbrella are transsexual people, non-binary gender identities, and cross-dressing (LGBT Youth, 2017). Transgender individuals are often the target of discrimination, injustice and social stigma that can lead to negative health outcomes.

They call themselves transgender a term used for people who live their life as the opposite

Throughout the book, Becoming Nicole – The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt, there were many topics and vocabulary that were semi new to me. With that in mind, there was a lot that I learned from the book itself, relating to what it actually meant to be transgender, and the glossary in the back helped to even further my understanding of different vocabulary.

The LGBT community is a group that often falls victim to negative stereotyping. LGBT is an acronym for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender that categorizes a community of individuals that are a part of the sexual minority (Swain, 2007). One community that falls under the umbrella of the LGBT acronym is the transgender community. This community consists of transgender individuals, a general term to describe those who do not conform to typical gender roles, transsexuals who desire to be recognized as a member of the opposite sex, and transvestites who dress in clothing associated with the opposite gender. Transsexuals are a group that are largely ignored on television, and when they are portrayed they usually belong to roles in which they

The term transgender can be broken down into even more terms, including trans*, transman, and transwomen. People who identify using trans* use the asterisk to refer to all identities in the spectrum, choosing not to self-identity any further. It also provides a category for people who may not fit into any other gender classification. (Driver, 2008) People who identify as a transgender woman, or a transwoman, have chosen to identify as “female.” On the flip side, others choose to identify as a transgender man, or a transmen, choose to identify as “male.” It is important to realize that this is a distinction between FtM and MtF. FtM refers to someone who is biologically female, but chooses to identify as a male; MtF refers to someone biologically male who identifies as a female. (Transgender Terminology, 2014) Though there are other terms used in the transgender community, those are the most common and the terms that society as a whole is familiar

The transgender community continue to battle the acknowledgment of independent identity within society. The ongoing problem has been the continued gender crisis with mistaken the identity of transgender as the same as gay or lesbian sexuality. Gay is a term commonly used to refer to homosexuals, but transgender is the state in which a person’s gender identity does not match with his/her physical sex (Gay Couple Fertility Care, 2015, p. 1)". Transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual. It does not imply to any specific form of sexual orientation (Gay Couple Fertility Care, 2015, p. 1)".

Though all of the identities that have been discussed in this seminar are of importance, the three identities I find important to discuss are transsexual, intersex and sex. Our first few readings covered these specific identities right away. Within The Gender Book, Transsexual was described as an individual whose gender identity exists primarily in contradiction to the sex that is assigned at birth (p. 36). Though according to the American Psychological Association (2014), Transgender is described as an umbrella term, which covers a person’s gender expression, identity and behavior that may not necessarily match with the sex that individual was assigned at birth. Though both are informative readings, I believe these authors were set out to

Transgenderism is a relevant topic due to its appearance in many cultures and the fight for transgender rights. People of the Umbrella term Trans* fight everyday for acceptance between themselves and society. Transgender is where you were born one sex, but feel like you are the other. An example being Jazz Jennings, who was diagnosed with Gender Dysphoria at age 5. She was born male, but knew from a young age that she was female, she lives as female and now takes

Transgender, denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. Many people don’t feel comfortable as their birth sex, and they switch so it is better for them even though a lot of people find it wrong. Transgender people should be treated the same way as non-transgender people.

Transgender is a human who does not identify with the sex that they were assigned at birth. Transgender is often shortened to trans to make it easier to say and convey what they mean easier. Transgender is an umbrella term to encompass many identities. There are many other identities that go along with being transgender like trans man or women, trans demiboy or demigirl, trans nonbinary, and many others. The thing that makes you transgender is if you self identify with being transgender than you are transgender. There are many words at this moment that are used against trans people and some of those words are tranny, transgendered, transexual, shemale, and many others. These words are used against trans people to spread hate in this world. Many trans

With gender (woman/man), one disregards the possibility of transgendered individuals. A transgendered individual is one whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex. There are two types of transgender: transmen and transwomen. Transwomen is a term for a female-bodied person who identifies with femininity or womanhood and may or may not have sex reassignment surgery (SRS). Transmen, on the other hand, is a term for a female-bodied person who identifies with masculinity or manhood and may or may not have SRS (keys, 1/13/11). Another disregarded gender identity is transsexuals and transvestites. All these given examples are gender identities that people miss when sticking to just the socially constructed cultural scripts of society.

For decades, the idea of a third gender, a transgender, has been thought of as being taboo in the American society. The definition of transgender, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is of, relating to, or being a person (as a transsexual or transvestite) who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the identity that corresponds to the person 's sex at birth. Whether for moral, religious or other reasons, people have rejected the idea of acceptance of this third gender. Until recently, transgender people have been alienated from their communities and forced into a unique transgender community; but now, their stories are finally starting to be heard and understood thanks to several media outlets.

Transgender, a term I was not too familiar with until I read the insightful book Luna by Julie Anne Peters. Before reading this novel I thought that if you were transgender that meant you wanted to change your sex, because you thought you were born as the wrong one; however, there is more to it than this. A person that is transgender goes through cycles of transformation in order to get to the point where they finally look the same outside as they do on the inside.

A person who is transgender is someone who does not identify with their birth sex and rather identifies with the opposite gender. Roughly there are 1.4 million people in the United States alone that identify as transgender and 16% of Americans say that they personally know someone who is transgender (The 2016 Election: Know the facts about transgender people). With those number amounts consistently rising this is a group of people that should be included as equals no matter how they identify. Sadly, this is not the world we live in currently