- Answers to your questions about transgender people, gender identity . . .
Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (sense of themselves as male or female) or gender expression differs from socially constructed norms associated with their birth sex This includes androgynous, bigendered and gender queer people, who tend to see traditional concepts of gender as restrictive
- Answers to Your Questions - American Psychological Association (APA)
A Q Answers to Your Questions ABOUT TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, GENDER IDENTITY, AND GENDER EXPRESSION What does transgender mean?
- The Psychology of Transgender - American Psychological Association (APA)
Transgender expert Walter Bockting, PhD, answers questions related to the meaning of the term transgender, psychological challenges that transgender people may face, and how parents and others can fight discrimination against transgender people
- Defining transgender terms - American Psychological Association (APA)
The language used to describe the experience of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals is evolving rapidly—and there continues to be disagreement about it
- Transgender Identity Issues in Psychology
APA resolution supporting full equality for transgender and gender-variant people, the cultural context surrounding transgender issues, the national transgender discrimination survey, the world professional association for transgender health issues identity recognition statement, the new policy on gender change in passports announced by the U S Department of State and more
- A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements
Additional selected resources: Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaws: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, Routledge, 1994
- Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Transgender and Gender . . .
Compatibility These Guidelines are consistent with the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (APA,
- Key Terms and Concepts in Understanding Gender Diversity and Sexual . . .
Definitions and Limitations of Language The language around gender and sexuality continues to evolve rapidly, even as this resolution was being written
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