transgenderism

Transgenderism is a grassroots political movement seeking transgender rights and affirming transgender pride. For many in the transgender - or "trans" - movement, the label transgender encompasses not only transsexual and transgender people but also cross-dressers or transvestites, drag queens, intersexed individuals, and anyone non-conventionally gendered (i.e., anyone identifying or behaving in a manner that runs counter to expected societal norms concerning the gender assigned them after birth. Transgenderism is also occasionally used as a general label for people with gender identity disorder, as in the International Journal of Transgenderism http://www.symposion.com/ijt/index.htm. Another, older and increasingly deprecated use sees transgenderism as explicitly different from "transsexualism" (see transgender#Other definitions).

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