Transgender is a very complex topic, where definitions are often still up in the air. Usually, the only way to find out how exactly people identify themselves is to ask them, and sometimes, transgender people either cannot or will not define themselves any more specifically than transgender, queer, or genderqueer.
Books and articles written about transgender people or culture are often outdated by the time they are published, if not already outdated at the time of composition, due to inappropriate and/or outdated questions or premises. Not only psychology and medicine, but also social sciences deal with transgender people, and both start from very different points of view, and offer very different perspectives and use a different nomenclature. The difference is mirrored by the attitude of transgendered people towards transgender issues, as can be seen in the articles listed below.
People and Behaviour
- Transgender
- Transsexual
- Cross-dressing
- Transvestite
- Transvestism
- Drag
- Androgyny
- Genderqueer
- Genderfuck
- Third gender
- Shemale
- Transvestic fetishism
In non-western cultures
Basic Terms
- Sexual characteristics
- Sex organ or primary sexual characteristics
- Secondary sex characteristics
- Sex-determination system
- 5-alpha-reductase deficiency
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome
- Hypospadias
- Klinefelter's syndrome
- Swyer syndrome
- Turner's syndrome
Other
Topics related to transitioning
Social
Relating to medical treatment
- Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders
- Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association
- Gender reassignment therapy (compare also Sex change)
Legal aspects
Other
Other related topics
- List of transgender-rights organizations as of 5.1.2005, still a work in progress
- List of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community centers in the USA and Canada
- Violence against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered
- Genderqueer
- Gender studies
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Feminine side
- Feminism
- Transfeminism
- Transsexual Pregnancy
- Queer Theory
- Queer studies
- Passing
- The Closet
- Stonewall riots
- Autogynephilia
Other gender-variant people or behaviour
Many other terms describe gender-variant people or behaviour, without the people being described necessarily being transgender.
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.
- Homosexuality and Transgender
- Sexual minority cultures also contains a section on transgender
- LGBT
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Bisexuality
- List of gay-related topics
- Homosexuality
- Heterosexuality
- Sexual identity
- List of gay-related topics
Religion
Media
Movies
- Beautiful Boxer
- Boys Don't Cry
- Different for Girls
- Glen or Glenda?
- Normal
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Ma Vie en Rose
- Southern Comfort
- The Crying Game
- Soldier's Girl
- Yellow Hair 2
- Just Like A Woman
Books
- Transgender Warriors (ISBN 0807079413) by Leslie Feinberg
- The Transsexual Empire (ISBN 0807762725) by Janice Raymond
- Masculinities Without Men? (ISBN 0774809973) by Jean Bobby Noble
- Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices (ISBN 076191711X) by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis and Friedemann Pfäfflin]]
- Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" has a transgendered person as a central character in it.
- "Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities" by Will Roscoe
- "Latin American Male Homosexualities" by Stephen O. Murray
- "Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature" by Stephen O. Murray
- "Pacific Homosexualities" by Stephen O. Murray
Other
- Fictionmania is a non-commercial website collecting and archiving stories, poems, and essays exploring gender.
- The Caste Of The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky: Aghora, the father of the current Metabarons, is a transman.
- Venus Envy by Erin Lindsey, is a webcomic centred around the life of a teenage MTF.