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...

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 several ambiguously gendered figurines from pre-Columbian Ecuador can be analyzed through the lens of transgender archaeology?
• ... 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 the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times?
• ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?
• ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?
• ... that LGBT rights activist Kit Malone helped create the first transgender organized marching group in the Indianapolis Pride Parade's history?

• 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 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'"?

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.