Transgendrity

About

Transgendrity (aka transgenderness^A or trangenderism^A) is the quality of having discovered that one's gender is different from that designated at birth.

Vocabulary: a person who experiences transgendrity (n.) is transgender (adj.) or "trans" (also often used as a prefix for other transgendrity-related terms).

Transgendrity has become a social phenomenon in that:

• a significant percentage of humans are transgender, and
• this fact has only begun to be popularly and legally recognized within the past few decades, and
• transgender (aka "trans") people therefore tend to be socially marginalized and disempowered
• bigotry (usually driven by fearmongery) tends to focus on any marginalized group.

Pages

• TERFism is a reactionary gender essentialist ideology targeting trans people while masquerading as feminism.
• Transmisia is inaccurate portrayal of transgendrity or trans people, often amounting to bigotry
• Truscum are people who insist on a binary and interventionist definition of "transgender"
• Data about violence:
  • Rates of violence against women vs. trans
  • Rates of violence by cis women vs. trans women
• /experience: the experience of being trans
• /youth: Transgender youth are in a particularly vulnerable position, for multiple reasons.

Links

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia wants us to know that "61-98% of young people outgrow their gender confusion if allowed to progress naturally." (This is unlikely to be true.)
• Social Justice Wiki
• RationalWiki

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