transgender

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It's tough to tally the number of homeless who are transgender, a term that includes people who switch gender through surgery and hormone treatments as well as those who just dress the part.

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  • It's tough to tally the number of homeless who are transgender, a term that includes people who switch gender through surgery and hormone treatments as well as those who just dress the part. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Part two will be a discussion about how many classic transsexuals don't want to be labeled as transgender, and how new and legacy LGBT media needs to address self-identification when people who could fall under the term transsexual don't want to be unwillingly absorbed by transgender terminology into transgender community. —  Pam's House Blend - Front Page
  • And, just as it is with the term queer being considered a defamatory epithet to many LGBT people, to a good number of those who identify as transgender -- but not as trannies -- consider the term tranny to be defamatory epithet. —  Pam's House Blend - Front Page
  • Most in the LGBT media understand that reclaiming the term queer doesn't make the terms LGBT and queer interchangeable, yet some LGBT media professionals have begun using tranny and transgender -- and even transsexual —  Pam's House Blend - Front Page
  • "For me as a transgender, I have the privilege of passing (as) straight," said project participant Kalil Gonzales-Cohen. —  UCLA Stories
 

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