Portal:Transgender

A trans man (sometimes trans-man or transman) is a man who was assigned female at birth. The label of transgender man is not always interchangeable with that of transsexual man, although the two labels are often used in this way. Transgender is an umbrella term that includes different types of gender variant people (including transsexual people). Many trans men choose to undergo surgical or hormonal transition, or both (see sex reassignment therapy), to alter their appearance in a way that aligns with their gender identity or alleviates gender dysphoria.

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents. These documents include the video Collateral Murder showing U.S. soldiers laugh during a firefight where they kill civilians and reporters and included more accurate, larger estimates of civilian casualties from the Iraq and Afghan wars than publicly available. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted. Manning was jailed again for 62 days in 2019 for her continued refusal to testify before a grand jury against Julian Assange. A trans woman, Manning released a statement in 2013 explaining she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning. She also expressed a desire to begin hormone replacement therapy.

• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
• ... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
• ... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society?
• ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?
• ... 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?

• 1 – Christine and the Queens (1988), French non-binary singer and songwriter
• 3 – Daniela Vega (1989), Chilean transgender actress
• 5 – Buck Angel (1962), American adult film actor and producer
• 9 – Parinya Charoenphol (1981), Thai boxer, model and actress
• 9 – Bülent Ersoy (1952), Turkish singer and actress
• 9 – Roz Kaveney (1949), English transgender author
• 10 – Laerte (1951), Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter
• 13 – Violet Chachki (1992), American genderqueer drag queen and musician
• 15 – Tash Sultana (1995), non-binary Australian singer-songwriter and musician
• 16 – Lou Sullivan (1951-1991), American transgender activist and author
• 19 – Erik Schinegger (1948), Austrian athlete
• 21 – Lana Wachowski (1965), American director, writer, producer
• 22 – Jennifer Finney Boylan (1958), American author
• 28 – Ataru Nakamura (1985), Japanese trans woman singer, songwriter, actress
• 30 – Elliot Fletcher (1996), American actor

• ... that the 2015 State of the Union Address was the first State of the Union Address in which the President of the United States used the words "gay", "lesbian", and "transgender"?
• ... that Nicole Maines won a Maine Supreme Court ruling that denying transgender students access to the bathroom consistent with their gender was unlawful, and went on to become the superheroine Dreamer in the television series Supergirl?
• ... that in 1776, a person reported being genderless, changed names to the Public Universal Friend, dressed androgynously, asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns, and has been called a chapter in transgender history "before 'transgender'"?

It is difficult to generate a counterdiscourse if one is programmed to disappear. The highest purpose of the medically defined transsexual is to erase h/erself, to fade into the "normal" population as soon as possible. Part of this process is known as constructing a plausible history--learning to lie effectively about one's past. What is gained is acceptability in society. ... In the transsexual's erased history we can find a story disruptive to the accepted discourses of gender.