What is the difference between lgbt and transgender?
lgbt | transgender |
''Trans communities
Although the umbrella term LGBT makes pragmatic sense, there are compelling arguments to treat transgendered people as distinct from LGB communities: gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity (Dean et al., 2000) and to conflate the two risks ignoring the particular experiences of this ["trans"] group which is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others. Transgendered people can experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities[.]
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(narrowly, of a person) Having a gender identity (self-image) which is the opposite of one's physical sex: being physically male but identifying as female, or vice versa.
* 2010 , Jessica Green, "I'm sorry, I'm not lesbian", The Guardian , 3 Mar 2010:
* 2010 , Natasha Lennard, "City Room", New York Times , 7 Apr 2010:
(broadly, of a person) Not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female; having changed gender identity from male to female or female to male, or identifying with elements of both, or having some other gender identity.
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* 1998 , John Cloud, "Trans across America", Time , 20 Feb 1998:
* 2007 , Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (ISBN 074563883X), page 41
A transgender person.
* 2005 , Walter Bockting & Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention , p. 116:
* 2006 , Jayne Caudwell, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/theory , p. 122:
(lb) To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of.
* 2005 , Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, ?Jyl J. Josephson, Gender and American Politics (ISBN 0765631563), pages 15 and 205:
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Transgender is a hypernym of lgbt.
As nouns the difference between lgbt and transgender
is that lgbt is a member of the LGBT community while transgender is transgenderism; the state of being transgender. Compare transsex.As an initialism LGBT
is initialism of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual community|lang=en.As an adjective transgender is
having a gender identity (self-image) which is the opposite of one's physical sex: being physically male but identifying as female, or vice versa. Compare transsexual, and the following sense.As a verb transgender is
to change the gender of; to change the sex of. Compare transsex.lgbt
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Alternative forms
* GLBTUsage notes
* Sometimes, additional letters are added, such as 'Q' for 'queer' or 'questioning', 'I' for 'intersex', and 'P' for 'pansexual', 'A' for 'asexual', etc. * Sometimes, the order of the letters is switched to GLBT. * When speaking only of sexuality and not of gender, the abbreviation LGB or GLB may be used. * Some authors avoid the umbrella term 'LGBT' because "gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity", the 'T' community "is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others", and transgender and genderqueer people "experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities".Katherine Cox, Sexual Orientation'', in ''Death, Dying, and Social Differences'' (edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne, published in 2011), page 197:''Trans communities
Although the umbrella term LGBT makes pragmatic sense, there are compelling arguments to treat transgendered people as distinct from LGB communities: gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity (Dean et al., 2000) and to conflate the two risks ignoring the particular experiences of this ["trans"] group which is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others. Transgendered people can experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities[.]
Coordinate terms
* LGB, LGBTI/GLBTI, LGBTQ, LGBTQA, LGBTQIA, QUILTBAG, GQSee also
* ("LGBT" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
*References
transgender
English
(wikipedia transgender)Adjective
(en adjective)- One head of a small gay charity visibly flinched when I mentioned my boyfriend and has been cold towards me ever since. I've even caught someone staring down my top to see if I'm transgender .
- But the inclusion of the word “trannie” — a pejorative, in some circles — in the title, and the film’s parodic representation of transgender women, has offended many people.
- Their first step was to reclaim the power to name themselves: transgender is now the term most widely used, and it encompasses everyone from cross-dressers (those who dress in clothes of the opposite sex) to transsexuals (those who surgically "correct" their genitals to match their "real" gender).
Synonyms
* TG (abbreviated form)Antonyms
* cisgenderNoun
(en-noun)- Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.
- In a patriarchal society in which machismo rules, MTF transgenders represent a challenge to traditional masculinity due to their renouncing of the male position of social power.
- Individual transgenders could compete in any division; however, transgender teams could not play against biological women's teams.
Usage notes
* See the usage note at transsexual regarding the use of this type of word as a noun.Hypernyms
*LGBTCoordinate terms
* two-spirit, berdache * hijraVerb
(en verb)- and one that is still dominated by male nominees, women nominees might be seen as either contributing to the regendering, or the transgendering , of the Cabinet.
- This chapter examines women secretaries-designate in terms of their contributions to regendering or transgendering a cabinet office, to a gender desegregation or integration of the cabinet.