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Title: Transgender Health: Findings from Two Needs Assessment Studies in Philadelphia (Editorial) (Editorial)
Author : Health and Social Work
Release Date : January 01, 2005
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 226 KB

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The term "transgender" is used as an umbrella term to describe people who "... have gender identities, expressions, or behaviors not traditionally associated with their birth sex" (Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc., 2001). Transgender people are often grouped by their gender vector (Gender Education &Advocacy, Inc.), male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM). MTFs are people who have been assigned a male gender at birth, but who identify their gender as female; FTMs are people who have been assigned a female gender at birth, but who identify their gender as male. These two gender identities (MTF and FTM) have been widely used by transgender people and in the transgender literature (for example, Clements-Nolle, Marx, Guzman, & Katz, 2001; JSI Research & Training Institute, 2000; Xavier, 2000). The language used to describe transgender identity is constantly evolving. For descriptions of transgender identity terms see Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc. and Israel (1996). Although MTF and FTM are often used to group transgender people, it is important to understand the diversity of genders that exists in the transgender community. Some transgender people identify their gender as both male and female; others identify their gender as neither male nor female. As one transactivist wrote, "gender-identity is the manner in which we think of ourselves, our internal conviction about being men or women, male or female, masculine or feminine (and both or neither)" (Singer, 1997).