Explain the phenomenon of transgender. What implications does the term have?
What will be an ideal response?
There are some individuals appear to depart from traditional gender identities. They are called transgender, an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth. The term transgender also includes people who may refer to themselves as gender-variant, gender or sex-changing, gender-bending, and gender-blending. It appears that cultural, biological, and psychological factors are involved in how individuals choose to identify as transgender.
Regarding sexual orientation and its relationship to transgender people, the term transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation or same-sex attraction. Transgender people may identify by conventional sexual orientation labels such as heterosexual or bisexual, or they may feel that these are inadequate or inapplicable to them. A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender, identify with the other or opposite gender, or exist outside of it.
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A. Sigmund Freud. B. Henry Havelock Ellis. C. Richard von Krafft-Ebing. D. Magnus Hirschfeld.