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Transgender — Living in a Gender Different from That Assigned at Birth

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

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Transgender is a broad term, coined by Virginia Prince, an activist (King & Ekins, 2000), and used to refer to a diverse group of individuals who cross or transcend culturally defined categories of gender, including transsexual people; people who cross-dress, drag queens and kings; non-binary people; and gender-variant or transgender people (Bockting, 2009). Non-binary gender identities - those that identify outside the binary gender of male or female — may include genderqueer, bigende r, pangender, gender less, agender, neutrois, third gender, and gender-fluid people (see Barker & Richards, Further Genders, this volume). The term transis a self-identifying label that is commonly used and will therefore be used here.

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  1. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and West London Mental Health NHS Trust, UK

    Christina Richards (Senior Specialist Psychology Associate and Clinical Research Fellow) (Senior Specialist Psychology Associate and Clinical Research Fellow)

  2. The Open University, UK

    Meg John Barker (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology)

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Murjan, S., Bouman, W.P. (2015). Transgender — Living in a Gender Different from That Assigned at Birth. In: Richards, C., Barker, M.J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345899_13

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