Can somebody tell me what a "Transgender" is?
Is that somebody who has an operation to change his or her external genitals? Or is it a man who dresses as a woman, or vice versa? I just am never sure who the transgendered community is.
Transgender is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society.
Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as male, female, both or neither) not matching one's "assigned gender" (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex).
As TexasCajun's illustration amply explains, it is necessary to preserve the institution of publik skulz, without which our children would be without answers to such life queries.
Michelle Bruce, City Council member in Riverdale, Ga.
Jessica, who use to be Jeff, Orsini, Centralia Board of Alderman, Missouri
Don't feel bad, I don't think they do either. My guess is that they consider everybody that unless you're sure you know you're straight.
It's so hard to keep up with all the new sexuality terms, isn't it? I don't even want to know what they all mean anymore.
There was another article here about "safe zone" posters being placed in schools. "Safe zones" for students who were - and here were the terms - gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual, transgendered, and questioning.
And how many more terms will be added? One can only wonder...
As the Kinks so aptly put it "She walked like a woman but talked like a man...Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls...It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world,
except for Lola. Lo lo lo Lola. Lo lo lo Lola."