Transgender — Living in a Gender Different from That Assigned at Birth

Transgender is a broad term, coined by Virginia Prince, an activist (King & Ekins, 2000), and used to refer to a diverse group of individuals who cross or transcend culturally defined categories of gender, including transsexual people; people who cross-dress, drag queens and kings; non-binary people; and gender-variant or transgender people (Bockting, 2009). Non-binary gender identities - those that identify outside the binary gender of male or female — may include genderqueer, bigende r, pangender, gender less, agender, neutrois, third gender, and gender-fluid people (see Barker & Richards, Further Genders, this volume). The term transis a self-identifying label that is commonly used and will therefore be used here.