Portal:Transgender

Transitioning is the process of changing one's gender presentation and/or sex characteristics to accord with one's internal sense of gender identity – the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman, or to be non-binary or genderqueer. For genderqueer people, the internal sense of gender identity is neither solely female nor male. For transgender and transsexual people, this process commonly involves reassignment therapy (which may include hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery), with their gender identity being opposite that of their birth-assigned sex and gender. Transitioning might involve medical treatment, but it does not always involve it. Cross-dressers, drag queens, and drag kings tend not to transition, since their variant gender presentations are (usually) only adopted temporarily. Transition must begin with a personal decision to transition, prompted by the feeling that one's gender identity does not match the sex that one was assigned at birth. One of the most significant parts of transitioning for many transgender people is coming out for the first time...

Angel in 2010

Buck Angel (born June 5, 1962) is an American sex educator and former pornographic film actor and producer. He founded the media production company Buck Angel Entertainment. Angel is a transsexual man. He currently works as an advocate and educator. Angel served on the board of directors of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation from 2010 to 2016. The Foundation works to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right through advocacy and education.

• ... that the portrayal of a transgender child by Sofía Otero made her the youngest actor to win the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance?
• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that Precious Brady-Davis and her husband were the first transgender couple to have their gender identities listed correctly on an Illinois birth certificate?
• ... that after discovering her child was transgender, Thamirys Nunes created an organization dedicated to defending transgender youth?
• ... that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare?
• ... that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly?

• 2 – Lynn Conway (1938-2024), American computer scientist and transgender activist
• 3 – Raewyn Connell (1944), Australian transgender sociologist
• 5 – Roxen (2000), Romanian non-binary singer
• 7 – Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (1991), American actress and singer
• 10 – Jeffrey Catherine Jones (1944-2011), American transgender artist
• 13 – Masha Gessen (1967), Russian trans non-binary journalist
• 15 – Jamie Clayton (1978), American actress and model
• 26 – Yoon Ha Lee (1979), American author

• ... that African-American gay and transgender youth Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• ... that non-binary transgender actor Indya Moore became the first transgender person to be featured on the cover of the US version of Elle magazine when they were featured in May 2019?
• ... that Jennie June (b. 1874), one of the earliest transgender people to publish an autobiography in the US, published the first and second volumes in 1918 and 1922, and wrote a third volume which was discovered in 2010?

But if we cannot know what causes transsexuality, we can know a great deal about it. We can acknowledge its power and its reality, we can learn about other transsexual people and their experiences, and we can discover its ancient worldwide history.