Transgender
Transgender is term form people whose gender expressions, identity, and behavior are not associated with the sex they were given at birth. Gender identity refers to an inner sense of being male, female, or something else. Anti-discrimination laws in most of the U.S. do not protect transgender people. Transgender people are often subjects of hate crimes and micro-aggressions. Transgender is an umbrella term for many categories of aidentities including: transsexual, cross-dressing, drag queens and kings, genderqueer, androgynous, multigendered, and gender nonconforming, and two-spirit people. (http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx)
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