Transgender People
Transgender is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of people with more specific identities. In general, a person who is transgender self-identifies with a gender other than their biological sex. There is a vast differences in the people that may be generalized under this "umbrella" that are transsexual people, cross-dressers, drag queens, drag kings, masculine women, and effeminate men. In a broad sense, the term "transgender" includes all people who fall outside of a gender stereotype. The beliefs that transgendered people are all prostitutes and caricatures of men and women are two of many erroneous misconceptions.
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