Outline of transgender topics

People and behaviour

• Transgender
  • Trans man
  • Trans woman
  • Transgender youth
  • List of transgender people
• Transsexual
• Non-binary
  • List of people with non-binary gender identities
  • Genderfluidity
• Gender neutrality
• Androgyny
• Gender bender
• Gender variance
• Packing (phallus)
• Tucking
• Chest binding
• Breast prostheses
• Shemale
• Third gender
• Transsexual pornography

Other gender non-conforming behaviour

• Cross-dressing
• Drag
  • Drag queen
  • Drag king
  • AFAB queen
  • Travesti
  • Pantomime dame
• Feminization (sexual activity)
• Transvestic fetishism

In non-Western cultures

• Akava'ine (Cook Islands)
• Bakla (Philippines)
• Bissu (Indonesia)
• Calabai (Indonesia)
• Eunuch
• Fakaleitī (Tonga)
• Faʻafafine (Samoa)
• Femminiello (Neapolitan)
• Galli (ancient Rome)
• Hijra (South Asia)
• Kathoey (Thailand)
• Khanith (Arabia)
• Khawal (Egypt)
• Koekchuch (Siberia)
• Köçek (Turkey)
• Māhū (Hawaii)
• Mak nyah (Malaysia)
• Meti (Nepal)
• Mudoko dako (Langi and Uganda)
• Mukhannath (Arabia)
• Muxe (Mexico)
• Newhalf ("ニューハーフ") (Japan)
• Toms and dees (Thailand)
• Balkan sworn virgins (Balkan)
• Takatāpui (Māori)
• Travesti (Brazil)
• Two-spirit (Native American)
• Waria (Indonesia)
• Winkte (Lakota)

Basic terms

• Gender modality
• Sex–gender distinction
• Gender
• Agender
• Transfeminine
• Transmasculine
• Bigender
• Cisgender
• Gender binary
• Gender-blind
• Gender identity
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Gender euphoria
• Gender role
  • Real-life experience
• Non-binary
• Pangender
• Terminology of transgender anatomy
• Third gender

Sex

• Sex assignment
  • Assigned female at birth
  • Assigned male at birth
• Sexual characteristics
  • Sex organ or primary sexual characteristics
  • Secondary sex characteristics
• Sex-determination system
• Intersex
  • Disorders of sex development
  • Hermaphrodite
• Endosex

Sexual orientation and behaviour

Sexual orientation and behaviour 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.

• Sexual orientation
• Transgender sexuality
  • Androphilia and gynephilia
• LGBTQ culture - also contains a section on transgender people
• Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
• Sexual identity
• LGBTQ
  • Gay
  • Lesbian
  • Bisexuality
  • Pansexuality
  • Asexuality
• Heterosexuality

Other

• Heteronormativity
• Cisnormativity
• Amatonormativity
• Allonormativity
• Queer
• Transgender Day of Remembrance
• International Transgender Day of Visibility
• Transphobia
• Trans panic defense

Law and rights

• Legal status of transgender people
  • Legal recognition of non-binary gender
  • Legal status of gender-affirming healthcare
  • Name change
• List of transgender-rights organizations
• List of transgender political office-holders
  • List of transgender politicians in Australia
  • List of transgender public officeholders in the United States
• Yogyakarta Principles
• Transgender history

By country

• Argentina
  • Transgender rights in Argentina
• Australia
  • List of transgender politicians in Australia
  • Transgender rights in Australia
  • Re Kevin
• Brazil
  • Transgender rights in Brazil
    • ADPF 787
  • Transgender history in Brazil
• Canada
  • An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code
  • Transgender rights in Canada
• China
  • Transgender people in China
• Finland
  • Transgender history in Finland
• Germany
  • Transgender rights in Germany
  • Transgender people in Nazi Germany
• India
  • Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014
  • LGBTQ rights in Tamil Nadu
• Iran
  • Transgender rights in Iran
• Ireland
  • Transgender rights in the Republic of Ireland
• New Zealand
  • Transgender rights in New Zealand
• Singapore
  • Transgender people in Singapore
• South Africa
  • Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, 2003
• South Korea
  • Transgender people in South Korea
• Turkey
  • March against Homophobia and Transphobia
• United Kingdom
  • Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom
  • Transgender rights in the United Kingdom
  • Gender Recognition Act 2004
  • Gender Recognition Panel
• United States
  • Compton's Cafeteria riot
  • Gender identity under Title IX
  • Transgender history in the United States
  • List of transgender public officeholders in the United States
  • Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States
  • Transgender legal history in the United States
  • Transgender rights in the United States
  • Transphobia in the United States
  • Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration

Discrimination

• Anti-gender movement
  • United Kingdom
• Bathroom bill
• Deadnaming
• Discrimination against non-binary people
• Discrimination against transgender men
• History of violence against LGBT people in the United States
• List of people killed for being transgender
• Gender-critical feminism (also referred to as trans-exclusionary radical feminism)
  • TERF (acronym)
• Transgender genocide
• Transgender inequality
• Transmisogyny
• Transphobia
• Violence against transgender people

Medicine

• Gender dysphoria
• Gender dysphoria in children
• Sexual relationship disorder
• Sexual maturation disorder
• Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
• Body integrity dysphoria
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health
  • Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People
• Transgender health care
  • Transgender health care misinformation
  • Puberty blocker
  • Transgender voice therapy
  • Gender-affirming hormone therapy
    • Feminizing hormone therapy
    • Masculinizing hormone therapy
  • Gender-affirming surgery
    • Feminizing surgery
      • Breast augmentation
      • Orchiectomy
      • Trachea shave
      • Vulvoplasty
      • Vaginoplasty
      • Transgender voice therapy
    • Masculinizing surgery
      • Chest reconstruction (Also known as top surgery)
      • Facial masculinization surgery
      • Phalloplasty
      • Metoidioplasty
      • Scrotoplasty

Classification and causes

• Causes of gender incongruence
• Classification of transgender people

Sexual diversity studies

• Anima and animus
• Feminism
  • Transfeminism
  • Feminist views on transgender topics
• Gender studies
• Queer studies
• Queer theory

Scholars

• Judith Butler
• Leslie Feinberg
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Susan Stryker

Social transition

• Closeted
• Coming out
• Detransition
• Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy
• Passing (gender)
• Questioning (sexuality and gender)
• Gender transition

Society

Art

Transgender art and artists include:

• Transgender literature
• New Media Art:
  • Sandy Stone – ACT Lab
  • Shu Lea Cheang – Brandon
• Performance:
  • S. Bear Bergman
  • Kate Bornstein
  • Micha Cárdenas
  • Willi Pape
• Music:
  • LGBTQ representation in hip hop music
  • Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus
  • Genesis P-Orridge
  • Ryan Cassata
  • Laura Jane Grace
  • Sophie
  • Cavetown
  • List of transgender women musicians
• Photography:
  • Claude Cahun
  • Loren Cameron
  • Yishay Garbasz
• Film:
  • Barbara Hammer

Media

• List of transgender publications
• Media portrayals of transgender people

Film and television

• List of feature films with transgender characters
• Cross-dressing in film and television

Comics

• Assigned Male
• Claudine
• Wandering Son
• Rain

Books

• Herma by MacDonald Harris () the tale of a hermaphrodite as the central character, who is transformed from an opera singer (female) to an aviator (male) at the turn of the 20th century into World War One.
• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. one of the stories revolve around a group of transvestites, led by a girl named Georgette.
• Masculinities Without Men? () by Jean Bobby Noble
• Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series includes a transgender person as a central character.
• Luna () by Julie Anne Peters
• Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
• Becoming, a gender flip book () by Yishay Garbasz a flip book with images of the artist one year before and one year after her gender affirmation surgery.

Sport

• Transgender people in sports
  • Transgender people in ice hockey
• Sex verification in sports

Religion

• Transgender people and religion
  • Christianity and transgender people

Military service

• Transgender people and military service
• Transgender personnel in the South Korean military
• Transgender personnel in the United States military

Gender-variant people or behaviour

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

• Amazons
• Butch and femme
• Effeminacy
• Tomboy
• Femboy

Religion

• The cult of Aphroditus, the androgynous Amathusian Aphrodite in Greek mythology.
• Galli, the transgender priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis.
• The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of mostly gay male nuns who take vows to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
• Skoptsy, religious sect in early 20th Century imperial Russia that practiced castration and mastectomies.

Miscellaneous

• Homelessness among LGBTQ youth in the United States
• International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
• Stonewall riots
• Transgender flag
• LGBTQ people in prison
• Neuroqueer theory
• Social construction of gender

References

References

1. (2010). "Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity". Routledge.
2. . (2015). ["Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex"](https://unfe.org/system/unfe-65-Intersex_Factsheet_ENGLISH.pdf). *United Nations [[Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights]]*.
3. Lev, Arlene Istar. (2004). "Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families". Routledge.
4. (2012). "Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles". Oxford University Press.
5. "Ryan Cassata – the Artist and Activist | Ryancassata.com".