List of transgender-related topics

List of transgender-related topics - In non-western cultures. Two-spirit Bacchá Berdache Transgender in China Evening people Fakaleiti Fa'afafine Galli Hijra Kathoey Kocek Transgender people in Singapore Sworn virgin Takatāpui Winkte Xanith ...

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List of transgender-related topics, List of transgender-related topics - People and Behaviour, List of transgender-related topics - In non-western cultures, List of transgender-related topics - Basic Terms, List of transgender-related topics - Gender, List of transgender-related topics - Sex, List of transgender-related topics - Intersexual, List of transgender-related topics - Other, List of transgender-related topics - Topics related to transitioning, List of transgender-related topics - Social, List of transgender-related topics - Relating to medical treatment, List of transgender-related topics - Legal aspects, List of transgender-related topics - Other, List of transgender-related topics - Other related topics, List of transgender-related topics - Other gender-variant people or behaviour, List of transgender-related topics - Sexual orientation and behaviour, List of transgender-related topics - Religion, List of transgender-related topics - Media

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Castration, gelding, neutering, orchiectomy, or orchidectomy is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a biological male loses use of the testes. This causes sterilization, i.e. prevents him from reproducing; it also greatly reduces the production of certain hormones, such as testosterone. It should not be confused with penectomy, which is the whole or partial removal of the penis, nor with vasectomy, which is a procedure to sterilize a male by blocking the vasa deferentia, the t ...

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• Castration - Castration in humans
• Castration - History
• Castration - Reasons
• Castration - Medical consequences
• Castration - Castration In Veterinary Practice
• Castration - In animal fancy
• Castration - In animal husbandry
• Castration - Miscellaneous

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"Coming out of the closet" (very often shortened to "coming out" in winking reference to the public introduction of debutantes) describes the voluntary public announcement of one's sexual orientation, sexual attractions, gender identity, or (less commonly) paraphilia. Being "out" means not concealing these characteristics. Being "outed" refers to having these characteristics made public typically against one's wishes or without one's consent. "Outing" is the process of deliberately disclosing these c ...

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• Coming out - Lesbian Gay and Bisexual LGB Usage
• Coming out - Transgender and transsexual usage
• Coming out - The coming out process
• Coming out - Outing
• Coming out - Current viewpoints
• Coming out - Other uses
• Coming out - References and further reading

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A vaginoplasty is an operation to construct or reconstruct a vagina. As a genital reassignment surgery procedure there are three main types: penile inversion colovaginoplasty the Suporn technique Other forms of vaginoplasty exist. See also. List of transgender-related topics ...

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The expression "being in the closet" has been used to describe keeping secret one's sexual behavior or orientation, most commonly homosexuality or bisexuality, but also including transgender and transsexual people. In 1993, Michelangelo Signorile wrote Queer In America (re-released in 2003 by University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0299193748) in which he explored in depth the harm caused both to the closeted individual and to society in general by being in the closet. The closet - Related terminology. Including:

• The closet - Related terminology
• The closet - Other uses
• The closet - Reading

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Two-Spirit is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not most, Native American and Canadian First Nations tribes. It usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body. It is also used by some contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex Native Americans to describe themselves. There are also native terms for these indi ...

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• Two-Spirit - Terms
• Two-Spirit - Two-Spirit like identities outside of North America
• Two-Spirit - Sources/Recommended reading

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An intersexual or intersex person (or animal of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics determined as neither exclusively male nor female, or which combine features of the male and female sexes. (The terms hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite, which have been used in the past, are now considered pejorative and inaccurate and are no longer used to refer to an intersexual person.) Sometimes the phrase "ambiguous genitalia" is used. Intersexualit ...

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• Intersexuality - Overview
• Intersexuality - Biological causes of intersexuality
• Intersexuality - Chimerism
• Intersexuality - Treatment of intersexuals by society

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This articles is about cross-dressing in general. For specific information about cross-dressing for sexual reasons, see Transvestic fetishism. Compare also the List of transgender-related topics. Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothing commonly associated with another gender within a particular society. The usage of the term, the types of cross-dressing both in modern times and throughout history, an analysis of the behaviour, and historical examples are discussed in the article below. Cross-dressing ...

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• Cross-dressing - Usage
• Cross-dressing - Varieties of cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - Clothes
• Cross-dressing - Equal Clothing Rights
• Cross-dressing - Analyses
• Cross-dressing - Female-bodied cross-dressers
• Cross-dressing - The classic psychoanalytic view
• Cross-dressing - The problem of attributing motives for cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - Some famous examples of cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - In Norse mythology
• Cross-dressing - Famous historical examples of cross-dressing people
• Cross-dressing - Cultural examples of cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - Literature

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"Cisgender", (pronounced IPA: /sɪs.ˈdʒɛn.dɚ/), is a concept in queer studies meaning "not transgender," that is, a gender identity or performance in a gender role that society considers to match or be appropriate for one's sex. The prefix cis- means "on this side of" or "not across" (cf. cisatlantic, cisalpine). Cisgender - History. The term was probably created by Carl Buijs, a transsexual man from the Netherlands, in 1995. Alo ...

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• Cisgender - History
• Cisgender - Current Usage
• Cisgender - Trivia

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Androgyny refers to two concepts. The first is the mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics, be it the example of the loud fashion statements of musicians like Ziggy Stardust or the balance of "anima" and "animus" in Jungian psychoanalytic theory. The second is in describing something that is neither masculine nor feminine, for example the Hijras of India who are often described as "neither man nor woman". Androgynous traits are those that either have no gender value, or have some aspects generally attributed to the opp ...

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Each term in the acronym is used to refer to members of the specific group and to the community that surrounds them. This can include family and friends, rights advocates, artists, authors, etc. LGBT - Lesbian. For more details on this topic, see lesbian. In this context, lesbian refers to women with a sexual orientation towards women; and the general lesbian (and to some extent, parts of the lesbian-supportive feminist) community. LGBT - Gay. For mo ...

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LGBT, LGBT - Meaning of each term, LGBT - Lesbian, LGBT - Gay, LGBT - Bisexual, LGBT - Transgender, LGBT - Intersex, LGBT - History, LGBT - Variants, LGBT - Controversy

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Ladyboys is a 1992 documentary film made for Channel 4 TV and directed by Jeremy Marre. It relates the story of two teenage kathoey who prepare for and enter a rural beauty contest and then leave for Pattaya to find work in a cabaret revue. The story of the Iron Ladies volleyball team underlies the successful 2000 movie The Iron Ladies and the 2003 sequel The Iron Ladies 2. The 2002 Thai film Saving Private Tootsie tells the story of a group of gays and kathoey who have to be rescued after a plane cr ...

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Kathoey, Kathoey - Films

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Many (particularly transsexual-inclusive) communities use the term "non-transsexual" or "non-trans", perhaps because the more scientific-sounding term "cisgendered" has not yet gained popularity or widespread usage in everyday English. Other groups, however, consider it inappropriate to define any group by what they are not. Many transgender people prefer "cisgender" to "biological", "genetic", or "real" male or female because of the implications of those words. Using the term "biological female" or "genetic female" to describe cisgen ...

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Cisgender, Cisgender - History, Cisgender - Current usage, Cisgender - Other usage

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Bugis Street lies in an extensive area which was commonly referred to in the past, by the Chinese-educated community, as Xiao Po (小坡; little slope). The latter stretched all the way from Tanjong Pagar, through Singapore's Chinatown, to Jalan Sultan. The whole vicinity was thriving and crammed with merchants and traders, making it one of the most vibrant economic zones of old Singapore. ...

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Bugis Street, Bugis Street - Historical, Bugis Street - Pre-1950s, Bugis Street - 1950s-1980s, Bugis Street - The Movie, Bugis Street - Contemporary, Bugis Street - Bugis Street: original, Bugis Street - Bugis Junction, Bugis Street - New Bugis Street, Bugis Street - Bugis Village, Bugis Street - Bugis MRT station

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Lesbians often attract media attention, particularly in relation to feminism, love and sexual relationships, marriage and parenting. Lesbian - Mainstream broadcast media. In television, the number of lesbian couples portrayed is generally less than the number of gay male couples. Notable lesbian couples on television include: Tara Maclay and Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus in Queer as Folk Maia Jefferies and Jay C ...

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Lesbian, Lesbian - Etymology of lesbian, Lesbian - Public policy regarding, Lesbian - Reproduction and parenting rights, Lesbian - Sexuality, Lesbian - Culture, Lesbian - Modern day, Lesbian - Media depictions, Lesbian - Mainstream broadcast media, Lesbian - Cinema, Lesbian - Feminism, Lesbian - Transwomen and trans-inclusion, Lesbian - Magazines, Lesbian - Media depictions

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Much of the controversy regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) result from a study by the Women's Health Initiative, which came out in 2002 [2]. It followed 16,608 women, aged 50 to 79 (average age = 63 at study intake), for 5.2 years who were either on a combination of progestins and equine estrogens (8506 women) or a placebo (8102 women). The WHI study found that the measured risks of this combination outweighed its measured benefits (see the table, below). Regrettably, the results were almost universally mis-reported as risks and pro ...

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Hormone replacement therapy, Hormone replacement therapy - Results of the WHI hormone replacement therapy studies

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Defining a relationship or a sexual act between two physically unambiguously male persons with a male gender identity (or two female ones) as homosexual is simple, as is defining a relationship or sexual act between one physically unambiguously male person with a male gender identiy and one one physically unambiguously female person with a female gender identiy as heterosexual. The problem of applying the terms homo- (and hetero-)sexual to transgender people, as well as to many intersex people, is deciding what exactly qualifies as same (=homo) and what as different (=hetero). ...

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Homosexuality and transgender, Homosexuality and transgender - The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex community, Homosexuality and transgender - The semantic problem, Homosexuality and transgender - History, Homosexuality and transgender - Actual current usage, Homosexuality and transgender - The biological definition, Homosexuality and transgender - The bio-social or historical definition, Homosexuality and transgender - Conclusion

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The majority of Fictionmania's archives consists of short story fantasies depicting characters being transformed from one sex to the other (often through the storytelling technique of bodyswapping). However, Fictionmania also publishes poetry, lyrics, plays, essays, autobiographical pieces, romance, humor, satire, parody, science fiction, horror, etc. A great many stories are also part of shared universes: both fan fiction based on pop culture (TV shows, movies, comic books, etc.) and unique fictional uni ...

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Fictionmania, Fictionmania - Content, Fictionmania - History, Fictionmania - Submissions, Fictionmania - External link

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There are many things that are often pointed to to illustrate the concept of heteronormativity, both historically and in contemporary society. Heteronormativity - Intersexed people. Intersexed people have biological characteristics which are not unambigously either male or female. If such a condition is detected, intersexed people are almost always assigned a gender at birth. Surgery (usually involving modification to the genitalia) is often performed to produce an unambiguously male or female body, withou ...

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Heteronormativity, Heteronormativity - Concept, Heteronormativity - Heteronormativity and patriarchy, Heteronormativity - Defense of heteronormative structures, Heteronormativity - Social and political manifestations of heteronormativity, Heteronormativity - Intersexed people, Heteronormativity - Gay lesbian and bisexual people, Heteronormativity - Transgender people, Heteronormativity - Literature

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Becoming a hijra is a process of socialization into a "hijra family" through a relationship characterised as chela "student" to guru "teacher", leading to a gradual assumption of femininity. Each guru lives with at least five chelas; her chelas assume her surname and are considered part of her lineage. Chelas are expected to give their income to their guru, who manages the household. Hijra families are close ...

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Hijra South Asia, Hijra South Asia - Other names for Hijras, Hijra South Asia - Different kinds of hijras, Hijra South Asia - Hijras and religion, Hijra South Asia - Becoming a hijra, Hijra South Asia - Making a living, Hijra South Asia - History, Hijra South Asia - Koothandavar festival, Hijra South Asia - Miscellaneaous

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