What is Transgender?

Transgender is an umbrella term for those whose gender identity or expression differs in some way from the sex assigned to them at birth and/ or does not fit with the ‘norms’ expected by the society they live in. Included in the overall transgender umbrella are transsexual people, non-binary gender identities and cross-dressing. Gender identities that are not exclusively male or female are identities which are outside of the gender binary is called non-binary. People can be both male and female, neither or their gender may be more fluid. A transgender person may have persistent feelings, beginning as early as childhood, of gender dysphoria—a disconnect between the person’s primary and secondary sex traits and designated gender and the gender that person identifies with. While many children who experience such feelings do not go on to identify as transgender in adulthood, long-standing gender dysphoria is a common experience of adults who do identify as transgender.

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