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Transgenderism

Transgender, an umbrella term for the state of one's gender identity not matching one's assigned sex


Alejandra Bogue

Bogue met the Mexican TV host, actor and journalist Horacio Villalobos in 2001 through the transgender singer and actor Daniel Vives "Ego".

Arekti Jiboner Golpo

The film stars Tista Das as Hiya, a transgender woman that undergoes several difficulties in her life.

Bunny Watson

In one of the show's most notable episodes, on October 2, 2004, the poet and performance artist Meryn Cadell came out as transgender.

Charles Parkhurst

Charley Parkhurst (1812–1879), American transgender stagecoach driver and settler

Cisgender

Julia Serano has defined cissexual as "people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their mental and physical sexes as being aligned", while cisgender is a slightly narrower term for those who do not identify as transgender (a larger cultural category than the more clinical transsexual).

Dallas Denny

She was Director of the transgender conference Fantasia Fair for five years and from 1999-2008 editor of Transgender Tapestry Journal, published by the International Foundation for Gender Education.

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World is a 2003 documentary film directed by American filmmaker John Scagliotti about the issues experienced by gay, lesbian and transgender people in developing countries.

Eugenia of Rome

She has been recognised by the modern-day LGBT community as an example of a transgender saint, particularly as reflected in Lorae Parry's 1996 play Eugenia, discussing an Italian immigrant to New Zealand in the twentieth century, female by birth, who lives as a man.

Fa'afafine

Jaiyah Saelua of American Samoa made history in November 2011 as the first transgender person to compete in a FIFA-sanctioned event, during World Cup Oceania qualifiers.

Fan Fair

Fantasia Fair, a transgender and cross-dressing conference in Massachusetts

Feminist views on transgenderism and transsexualism

Some feminists such as Janice Raymond and Sheila Jeffreys believe that transgender and transsexual people uphold and reinforce sexist gender roles and the gender binary, while other feminists, such as Judith Butler and Judith Halberstam, believe that transgender and transsexual people challenge repressive gender norms and that transgender politics are fully compatible with feminism.

Groundswell

Groundswell: The Second Diva Book of Short Stories, an anthology of fictional short stories about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people

Harmony Santana

She is most noted for her appearance in the 2011 film Gun Hill Road, for which she garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and became the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for a major acting award in the United States.

Human Rights Act 2003

The day after the passage of the law, a spokeswoman for Iqaluit Pride & Friends of Pride, an LGBT advocacy organisation, expressed disappointment that the Act did not include any reference to gender identity to protect transgendered people from discrimination.

Isis King

King is one of a small but growing number of transgender people and characters in film and television, and her inclusion on ANTM has been called an "unprecedented opportunity" by Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Jack Garland

Jack Bee Garland (1869–1936), transgender author, nurse and adventurer

Kinky boots

The film Kinky Boots was released in 2005 and told the story of an ailing company of high quality traditional men's shoe manufacturers that found a new lease on life making high heeled footwear for transgender people and drag queens.

Lambda Foundation

Lambda Foundation is a registered Canadian Charity with the mission of creating scholarships, awards, and bursaries in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) studies, and education and awareness, in advancement of equality and human rights.

Lambda Literary Award

In 2004, the book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism by the highly controversial researcher J. Michael Bailey was announced as a finalist in the Transgender category of the 2003 Awards.

LGBT clergy in Judaism

Emily Aviva Kapor, who had been ordained privately by a Conservadox rabbi in 2005, began living as a woman in 2012, thus becoming the first openly transgender female rabbi.

LGBT history in New York

Also in 1977, Renee Richards, a transgender woman, was granted entry to the U.S. Open (in tennis) after a ruling in her favor by the New York Supreme Court.

LGBT rights in the European Union

Despite the European Parliament adopting a resolution on transsexuals’ rights as early as 1989, Transgender identity is not incorporated into any EU funding and was not mentioned in the law establishing the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) as sexual orientation was.

Lisa Edelstein

Bigger roles in TV dramas soon followed, among them the lesbian sister on ABC's Relativity (1996); a high-priced call girl turned Rob Lowe's date on The West Wing (1999); an assigned male at birth (AMAB) transgender woman on Ally McBeal (2000); and Ben Covington's (Scott Speedman) girlfriend on Felicity (2001).

Lizzy the Lezzy

Lizzy also has friends called Kate the Straight, Nic the Bi-Chick Danny the Tranny and Stan the Macho Man, and these characters all appear in a book written and produced by Selwyn entitled "Lizzy the Lezzy Gets Laid".

Lorielle London

Lorielle London (born 24 December 1983 in Birkenfeld, Germany; birth name Lorenzo Woodard) is a German transgender entertainer.

Lorri

Lorri Jean, a leader in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ("GLBT") civil rights movement in America

Lucas Silveira

The first time he heard about transgender people was on Geraldo Rivera when he was about 14 or 15.

Miss International Queen 2007

Miss International Queen 2007, the fourth edition of the annual Miss International Queen beauty pageant for transgender people, was held on November 10, 2007 in Tiffany's Show Theater, Pattaya City, Chonburi, Thailand.

Miss International Queen 2013

Miss International Queen, the ninth edition of the annual Miss International Queen beauty pageant for transgender people, was held on November 1 of this year at Tiffany's Show Theater, Pattaya City, Chonburi, Thailand.

Nina Arsenault

She had a well-publicized encounter with Tommy Lee where he flirted with Arsenault for some time before discovering that Arsenault was transgender, and subsequently left in a hurry.

PFLAG

PFLAG National provided guidance and support to Degrassi High when the show introduced its first transgender character in 2010.

Pinelands Regional High School

Lily McBeth (born 1934), former transgender substitute teacher at the school who made national news after undergoing a sex-change operation and quit a position as a substitute teacher at the school.

QT: QueerTelevision

Focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues, the series was hosted by Irshad Manji.

Queer Latinos in Cinema

While many have attempted to bring the Latino transgender man into queer cinema, such as in Arturo Ripstein’s El Lugar sin limites (1978), the man is seldom portrayed in a positive light.

Reel Pride

Reel Pride is an annual gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and two-spirit film and video festival produced by the Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Film Society in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Ryan Allen Carrillo

In 2011 Carrillo appeared on Season 4 of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles when he purchased Mexico y Barra Restaurant in West Hollywood with transgender actress Candis Cayne.

ScotsGay

ScotsGay Magazine is a monthly magazine published in Scotland for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Shannon Minter

In 2003, Minter gained national attention again when CourtTV aired the entire case of Kantaras v. Kantaras, where Minter represented Michael Kantaras, a transgender man who was trying to keep custody of his children.

Solaris Pictures

It produces films that go beyond mere entertainment, to emotionally engage the audience and initiate dialogues about underserved issues like health and sexuality, human rights, gay and transgender issues.

The Ignorant Fairies

Although she's initially devastated by the news and hostile toward Michele, she soon develops a friendship with him and his and Massimo's circle of gay, transgender, and straight friends, among whom are a Turkish immigrant, a playwright and a boutique owner.

The Transsexual Empire

Writing in the The Transgender Studies Reader, Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle argue that the book "did not invent anti-transsexual prejudice, but it did more to justify and perpetuate it than perhaps any other book ever written.

TNT N.V.

TNT allowed its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees in 2005 to join together in an employee network called TNT GLBN — representing all GLBT/LGBT employees.

Touro University Rainbow Health Coalition

Touro University Rainbow Health Coalition (RHC) is a group of students, faculty, and staff who promote health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people at Touro University California, a Jewish-sponsored university in Vallejo, California founded by Dr. Bernard Lander.

Transgender rights in Tamil Nadu

Kalki Subramaniam, a transgender person born in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu performs a lead role in a new Tamil movie "Narthagi".

Transgenderism

Transsexualism, the condition in which a transgender individual identifies with a gender inconsistent or not culturally associated with their assigned sex


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