List of transgender-related topics

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Transgender is a very complex topic, where definitions are often still up in the air. Usually, the only way to find out how exactly people identify themselves is to ask them, and sometimes, transgender people either cannot or will not define themselves any more specifically than transgender, queer, or genderqueer.

Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises. Not only psychology and medicine, but also social sciences deal with transgender people, and each starts from a very different point of view, offers very different perspectives, and uses a different nomenclature. The difference is mirrored by the attitude of transgender people towards transgender issues, as can be seen in the articles listed below.

People and Behaviour

• Transgender
• Trans man and Drag king
• Trans woman
• List of transgender people
• Transsexual
• Cross-dressing
• En femme
• Transvestism
• Drag
• Drag queen
• Androgyny
• Genderqueer
• Genderfuck
• Third gender
• Transvestic fetishism

In non-western cultures

• Two-spirit
• Bacchá
• Berdache
• Transgender in China
• Evening people
• Fakaleiti
• Fa’afafine
• Galli
• Hijra
• Transsexuality in Iran
• Kathoey
• Kocek
• Transgender people in Singapore
• Sworn virgin
• Takatapui
• Winkte
• Xanith

Basic Terms

Gender

• Cisgender
• Gender identity
  • Gender identity disorder
• Gender role

Sex

• Sex organ or primary sexual characteristics
• Secondary sex characteristics
• Sex-determination system

Intersexual

• 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
• Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
• Androgen insensitivity syndrome
• Hypospadias
• Klinefelter’s syndrome
• Swyer syndrome
• Turner’s syndrome
• Hermaphrodite
• Chimerism

Other

• Gender blind
• Gender queer
• Heteronormativity
• LGBT
• Queer
• Third gender
• Transgenderism
• Transphobia

Topics related to transitioning

Social

• Transitioning
• Real life experience
• Stealth

Relating to medical treatment

• Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders
• Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association
• Gender reassignment therapy (compare also Sex change)
  • Hormone replacement therapy (trans)
  • Sex reassignment surgery
    • Sex reassignment surgery female-to-male
      • Phalloplasty
      • Metoidioplasty
    • Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female
      • Castration
      • Colovaginoplasty
      • Dilation
      • Penile inversion
      • Penectomy
      • Breast augmentation
      • Facial feminization surgery
      • Trachea shave

Legal aspects

• Legal aspects of transsexualism
  • Name change
  • Gender Recognition Act 2004
  • Changing legal gender assignment in Canada

Other

• Sex change

Other related topics

• List of transgender-rights organizations
• List of transgender-support organizations
• Violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered
• Genderqueer
• Gender studies
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Anima (Jung)
• Feminism
• Transfeminism
• Transsexual Pregnancy
• Queer Theory
• Queer studies
• Passing
• The Closet
• Stonewall riots
• Autogynephilia

Other gender-variant people or behaviour

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

• Amazon
• Eunuch
• Butch and femme
• Tomboy
• Skoptzy

Sexual orientation and behaviour

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.

• Homosexuality and transgender
• Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures also contains a section on transgender
• Sexual identity
• LGBT
  • Gay
  • Lesbian
  • Bisexuality
  • List of LGBT-related topics
• Heterosexuality

Media

• Transgender publications

Comedians

• Eddie Izzard

Books

• Transgender Warriors (ISBN 0807079413) by Leslie Feinberg
• The Transsexual Empire (ISBN 0807762725) by Janice Raymond (Warning: Severe transphobia throughout)
• Masculinities Without Men? (ISBN 0774809973) by Jean Bobby Noble
• Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices (ISBN 076191711X) by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis and Friedemann Pfäfflin
• Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” has a transgendered person as a central character in it.
• “Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities” by Will Roscoe
• “Latin American Male Homosexualities” by Stephen O. Murray
• “Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature” by Stephen O. Murray
• “Pacific Homosexualities” by Stephen O. Murray

Other

• Fictionmania is a non-commercial website collecting and archiving stories, poems, and essays exploring gender.
• The Caste Of The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky: Aghora, the father of the current Metabarons, is a transman.
• Venus Envy by Erin Lindsey, is a webcomic centred around the life of a teenage trans woman.