The term drag queen originates in Polari, the language of gay men in England in the early part of the last century. Drag meant "clothes", and was also theatre slang for a woman's costume worn by a male actor. A queen is an effeminate gay man. Another term for drag queen, female impersonator, is common in some areas, but considered dated in others. Drag queens are generally not literally "female impersonators" in that they do not attempt to pass as women. Female impersonation, under that name, used to be ill ...

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(also called vaginoplasty or vaginal reconstruction surgery) For changing anatomical sex from male to female, the testicles are removed and the skin of foreskin and penis is usually inverted, as a flap preserving blood and nerve supplies (a technique pioneered by Sir Harold Gillies in 1951) to form a fully sensate vagina (vaginoplasty). A clitoris fully supplied with nerve endings (innervated) can be formed from part of the glans of the penis. If the patient has been circumcised (removal of the foreskin), or if the surge ...

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Castration - History. The practice of castration has roots before recorded human history. Castration was frequently used in certain cultures, such as in Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa or China, for religious or social reasons. After battles, winners castrated their captives or bodies of the defeated to symbolise their victory and 'seize' their power. Castrated men - eunuchs - were often admitted to special social classes. Eunuchs were also often used to guard harems. Castration also figured in a number of ...

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Patrick Califia - Non-Fiction. Sapphistry: The book of lesbian sexuality Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism Public Sex (essays) Sensuous Magic Speaking Sex to Power (essays) Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada (editor, with Janine Fuller) Patrick Califia - Fiction. Macho Sluts (short stories) No Mercy Doc and FluffSee also:

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Today, more gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are out than ever before, and many believe that being in the closet is unhealthy for the individual. A common saying is, "Closets are for clothes". One major gay magazine is titled Out Magazine. Coming out is often seen within gay and lesbian communities as politically healthy, even a duty or necessity, arguing that the more out gay people there are, the harder it will be for bigots to misrepresent and oppress. Others believe that coming out in the traditional, overt manner is ...

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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 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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As long as a person's perceived physiological sex is consistent with that person's gender identity, the gender role of a person is so much a matter of course in a stable society that people rarely even think of it. Only in cases where, for whatever reason, an individual adopts a gender role that is inconsistent with his or her perceived gender identity will the matter draw attention. When an individual exhibits a gender role that is discordant with his or her gender identity, it is most often done to deliberately provoke a sense of incongrui ...

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The rise of the Nazis to power and the Second world war had brought an end not only to Hirschfeld's work, but to also most European research in the field of sexuality. In both Europe and the North America transvestite behaviour (both by male and female bodied persons) was until the 1960s seen an expression of homosexuality or suppressed homosexual impulses. Also, the three-gendered framework of Hirschfeld disappeared, and the two-gendered framework became the fra ...

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The formation of a gender identity is a complex process that starts with conception, but which involves critical growth processes during gestation and even learning experiences after birth. There are points of differentiation all along the way, but language and tradition in most societies insist that every individual be categorized as either a man or a woman. When multiplicity is arbitrarily reduced to absolute dichotomy, conflicts are sure to result. When, for instance, the gender identity of a person makes him a man, but his genital ...

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It can be extremely difficult to get sexual reassignment surgery. There are very few surgeons willing to perform SRS. Most jurisdictions and medical boards require a minimum duration of psychological evaluation and living as a member of the target gender full time, sometimes called the Real Life Experience (RLE) or Real Life Test (RLT) before SRS is permitted. However, transsexual and transgendered people are often not allowed to change the listing of their sex in public records ...

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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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Two-Spirit - Two-Spirit like identities outside of North America. Asia Korea mudang Siberian Chukchis Male-bodied: Yirka'-la'ul ("soft man") Female-bodied: Qa'cikicheca ("similar to a man") Thailand kathoey Philippines bantut India hijra Malaysia Singapore mak nyah ...

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The term closet has been extended to indicate any identity or affiliation that a person keeps secret for fear of persecution or exclusion (e.g., a closeted communist, nerd/geek, atheist, satanist etc.). One relatively obscure extension of this metaphor is the "broom closet", a term which was first coined by the TV show Charmed, referring to people who hide the fact that they are Wiccans. Brights are also urged to "come out", and Ri ...

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Sexual minority cultures frequently and consistently influence the broader culture at large, including straight culture. Slang frequently originations in subcultures, including sexual minority subcultures, which becomes part of the larger vernacular including words associated with descriptions specific to sexual minorities or not. Madonna is one of many artists who have borrowed from sexual minority cultures, including her appropriation of vogueing. Recently, the television series Que ...

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Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Sexual orientation and gender identity-based cultures LGBT, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Gay male culture, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Lesbian culture, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Bisexual culture, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Transgender culture, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Other groups within the LGBT community, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Polyamory, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Fetish-based cultures, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures - Influence on culture at large

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Transfeminism - Works Cited. Crabtree, Sadie. (2004). Finding common ground between movements for reproductive freedom and transgender/transsexual liberation. The fight for reproductive freedom. p. 9-11. Gluckman R., Trudeau, M. (2002). Trans-itioning feminism: the politics of transgender in the reproductive rights movement. The fight for reproductive freedom. p. 6-8. Transfeminism - Further reading. Menacing Feminism, Educating Sisters by Robert J. Hill - As PDF file Trans ...

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(Trans-)gender identity is different from, though related to, sexual orientation. Sexual orientations among transgender people vary just as much as they do among cisgender people. Although few studies have been done, transgender groups almost always report that their members are more likely to be attracted to those with the same gender identity, compared to the population as a whole; that is, transwomen are more likely to be attracted to other women, and transmen are more likely to be attracted to other men. Many transgender people who are attracted to others of the same gender ...

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Xanith, also written as "khanith" is a vernacular Arabic term for both "mukhannath" and "khuntha". "Mukhannath" refers to individuals with a gender identity that is discordant with their visible sexual organs. They are characterized as "effeminate", "not clearly male," and as people who were "born as a male" and who nevertheless feel, behave, and (in most cases) dress like a female. "Khuntha" refers to intersexed human beings. John Money summarizes material presented by U. Wiktan in an article entitled "Man becomes woman: Trans ...

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After this level of transition and development has been achieved, some transsexual men and women may wish to blend in with other members of their new sex, and will avoid revealing their past. They do this believing that it will provide greater peace and security on the other side of a stressful and potentially dangerous transition, and/or because they wish to be seen only as members of their target sex, not as transsexuals. This behaviour, known as stealth, is recognized by most people in the transsexual community as an individ ...

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Transsexuality, Transsexuality - Definitions, Transsexuality - Terminology, Transsexuality - Causes of transsexualism, Transsexuality - Proposed psychological causes, Transsexuality - Physical causes, Transsexuality - Objections against research of causes, Transsexuality - Gender reassignment therapy, Transsexuality - Psychological treatment, Transsexuality - Requirements for gender reassignment treatment, Transsexuality - Hormone replacement therapy, Transsexuality - Sex reassignment surgery, Transsexuality - Legal and social aspects, Transsexuality - Stealth, Transsexuality - Transsexual youth, Transsexuality - Coming out, Transsexuality - Puberty, Transsexuality - Ensuring the child's security, Transsexuality - Retransitions, Transsexuality - Depictions of transsexuality in the media, Transsexuality - Transsexuals in non-Western cultures

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As transgender studies began in Taiwan and statistics began to be published, many people noted that the island had a far larger occurrence of transmen (female-to-male) than of transwomen (male-to-female). This put Taiwan in interesting contrast to the West, where the opposite is usually believed to be true. Fang Ronghuang, one of Taiwan's most famous sexual reassignment surgeons, published statistics stating that the prevalen ...

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Transgender in China, Transgender in China - Terminology, Transgender in China - History of transgenderism in China, Transgender in China - Relative occurrence of transwomen and transmen

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Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term transvestism around 1915 in Berlin (from Latin trans-, "across, over" and vestere, "to dress or to wear"). He used it to describe a group of people who habitually and voluntarily wore clothes of the opposite sex. (The distinction between sex and gender had not been made at this time.) Hirschfeld's group of transvestites consisted of both males and females, with any sexual preference. Hirschfeld himself was not particularly happy with the term since he realised that clothes ...

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A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis and foreskin), prepuce, testicles, scrotum, prostate, seminal vesicles, epididymis, Cowper's glands Female: vulva (notably the clitoris and labia), vagina, cervix, uterus, Fallopian tubes, ova ...

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There is a long history of transgenderism in China. Guanyin, the boddhisattva of compassion, famously went from being primarily male in Indian Buddhism (as Avalokitesvara) to being primarily female in China. Guanyin is believed to be able to change gender at will, but is primarily worshipped as female in China. Mentioned above, many types of traditional Chinese theater included cross-dressed acto ...

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Transgender in China, Transgender in China - Terminology, Transgender in China - History of transgenderism in China, Transgender in China - Relative occurrence of transwomen and transmen

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