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Transgender is a complex topic, where consensual and precise definitions have not yet been reached. 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Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises.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 behavior

In non-Western cultures

Bacchá (Central Asia)
Bakla (Philippines)
Eunuch
Evening people (India)
Fakaleiti (Tonga)
Fa'afafine (Polynesia)
Galli (ancient Rome)
Hijra
Kathoey (Thailand)
Khanith (Arabia)
Köçek (Ottoman Empire)
Meti (Nepal)
Maknyah,Pondan, Bapok (Malaysia)
Mukhannathun (Islam)
Pidor (Russia)
Sworn virgin (Balkan)
Takatāpui (Maori)
Transgender in China
Transsexuality in Iran
Transgender people in Singapore
Two-Spirit/"Berdache" (North America)
Waria (Indonesia)
Winkte (Lakota, North America)

Basic terms

Gender

Sex

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

Intersex

5-alpha-reductase deficiency
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Chimerism
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Hermaphrodite
History of intersex surgery
Hypospadias
Klinefelter's syndrome
Swyer syndrome
Turner's syndrome

Other

Topics related to transitioning

Social

Relating to medical treatment

Standards of care for gender identity disorders
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association)
Etiology of Transsexualism
Gender reassignment therapy (compare also Sex change)
- Hormone replacement therapy (trans)
- Sex reassignment surgery
  - Sex reassignment surgery female-to-male
    - Male Chest Reconstruction
    - Phalloplasty
    - Metoidioplasty
  - Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female
    - Breast augmentation
    - Orchiectomy
    - Facial feminization surgery
    - Penile inversion
    - Penectomy compare also Penis removal
    - Trachea shave
    - Vaginoplasty
    - Voice feminization

Legal aspects

Legal aspects of transsexualism
- Name change
- Gender Recognition Act 2004 United Kingdom
- Changing legal gender assignment in Canada
List of transgender-rights organizations

Media

Books

Lannie! My Journey from Man to Woman (SterlingHouse Publisher) by Lannie Rose
Transgender Warriors (ISBN 0-8070-7941-3) by Leslie Feinberg
The Transsexual Empire (ISBN 0-8077-6272-5) by Janice Raymond
Masculinities Without Men? (ISBN 0-7748-0997-3) by Jean Bobby Noble
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices (ISBN 0-7619-1711-X) by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis and Friedemann Pfäfflin
Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" includes a transgendered person as a central character.
"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
"Transgender Good News" by Pat Conover. New Wineskins Press.
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore

Comedians

Eddie Izzard

Film and television

Queer studies

Anima (Jung)
Autogynephilia
Feminism
Gender studies
Gender and sexuality studies
Queer studies
Queer Theory
Transfeminism

Miscellaneous

List of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community centers in the USA and Canada
Violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered
Stonewall riots
Compton's Cafeteria riot
Transgender Pride flag

Gender-variant people or behavior

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

Amazon
Eunuch
Butch and femme
Tomboy
Skoptzy

Religion

Ardhanari, the androgynous aspect of Shiva in Hinduism
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of (mostly) gay male nuns who take vows to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.

Sexual orientation and behavior

Sexual orientation and behavior 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.

Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures also contains a section on transgender
Sexual identity
LGBT
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Bisexuality
Heterosexuality

External links

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.
The Saga of Tuck by Ellen Hayes is very long work of Internet serial fiction about a teenager discovering his own gender issues.
Transgender Day of Remembrance Webcomics Project organised by Jenn Dolari
Venus Envy by Erin Lindsey, is a webcomic centred around the life of a teenage MTF.