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...

Hemingway (right) with brother Patrick and father Ernest in Finca Vigía, Cuba, in 1942

Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was born a male and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age. In her 60s, she underwent gender transition surgery, and preferred the name Gloria when possible.

A good athlete and a crack shot, Gloria longed to be a typical Hemingway hero and trained as a professional hunter in Africa, but her alcoholism prevented her from gaining a license, and it ultimately cost her her medical license in the United States. Gloria maintained a long-running feud with her father, stemming from a 1951 incident when her arrest for entering a bar in drag caused an argument between Ernest and Gloria's mother Pauline. Pauline died from a psychological stress-related condition the following day, which Ernest blamed on Gloria and Gloria later believed to have been caused by Ernest.

• ... that Anjali Lama, Nepal's first transgender model, worked with Calvin Klein in 2019?
• ... that several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology?
• ... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
• ... that the 2021 film West Side Story was banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, likely due to the transgender character Anybodys?
• ... that trans man Iszac Henig alternated wins against trans woman Lia Thomas on the way to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship?
• ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?

• 3 - Nemo (1999), Swiss non-binary singer
• 9 – Sarah McBride (1990), American transgender rights activist, politician and author
• 11 – Quinn (1995), Canadian transgender non-binary soccer player and Olympic medallist
• 12 – Cara Delevingne (1992), English gender-fluid model, singer, and actress
• 12 – Bex Taylor-Klaus (1994), American non-binary actor
• 13 – Jin Xing (1967), Chinese dancer, choreographer and actress
• 14 – Arca (1989), Venezuelan singer, songwriter, producer
• 17 – Rachel Pollack (1945), American author
• 19 – Renée Richards (1934), American tennis player and ophthalmologist
• 20 – Demi Lovato (1992), American non-binary singer and performer
• 23 – Coccinelle (1931–2006), French actress, entertainer and singer
• 24 – Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992), American transgender rights activist
• 27 – Kim Petras (1992), German singer songwriter
• 28 – Andreja Pejić (1991), Bosnian-Australian transgender model and actress
• 29 – Candis Cayne (1971), American actress
• 31 – Caroline Cossey (1954), British model
• 31 – Sara Ramirez (1975), Mexican-American non-binary actress and singer

• ... 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.