Below are the best articles we could find on Transgender Well-Being and gender identity.
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Myth making, policy making and never the twain should meet.
“Our gender identities and the way we relate to gender is more of a constellation than an either-or.”
Why you should embrace labels beyond the traditional binary.
Having documented transgender communities for more than 30 years, photographer Mariette Pathy Allen is accustomed to working with those facing stigma and abuse. But the subjects of her latest book represented an altogether different experience.
Language and labels are important parts of understanding your gender and knowing how to be affirming and supportive of other people’s genders—but they can also be confusing.
Gender is different than sex. Although genetic factors typically define a person’s sex, gender refers to how they identify on the inside. Only the person themselves can determine what their gender identity is.
Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
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Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
In a viral clip from the podcast “Man Enough,” the nonbinary poet and speaker said the gender binary hurts everyone—not just trans people.
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