This encyclopedia takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to trans studies. Entries address a wide range of topics, from broad concepts, to specific subjects, to key historical figures, events, and organizations. Entries focus on diverse lives, identities, and contexts, including the experiences of trans people in different racial, religious, and sexual communities in the United States and the variety of ways that gender is expressed in other countries.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Board
• Reader’s Guide
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Introduction
• A
• Academia
• ACLU
• Activism
• Adoption and Foster Care
• Affirmative Therapy
• Agender People
• Aging
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Ancient and Medieval Times
• Ancient/Medieval Times, Jews and Judaism
• Androgyny
• Anti-Trans Theories
• Archives
• Artists, Canadian
• Artists, U.S.
• Asian American people
• Asylum
• Athletes, College sports
• Athletes, Pro sports
• Authorship of Trans Literature
• Autobiographies
• Autogynephilia
• B
• Ballroom
• Bathroom Discrimination
• Benjamin, Harry
• Binding
• Black Lives Matter
• Black People
• Body Image Disturbance and Eating Disorders
• Body size (Weight)
• Bono, Chaz
• Bornstein, Kate
• Boylan, Jennifer Finney
• C
• Campus Policies/Campus Climate
• Campus Residence Halls
• Cancer
• Cancer Survivorship
• Career Development and Trajectories
• Chest Feeding
• Child Welfare System
• Children With Trans Parents, Psychosocial Outcomes
• Chronic Disease
• Cisgender as a Term
• Cisgenderism
• Cisnormativity
• Citizenship
• Classroom Experiences, Higher Education
• College Graduate Students
• College Undergraduate Students
• Coming out
• Communication
• Community Building
• Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
• Consensual Nonmonogamy
• Cooper Do-nuts Riot
• Cox, Laverne
• Criminal Justice System
• Crossdressers as part of the Trans Community
• Crossdressing, History of
• D
• Dating
• Death and Dying
• Decisions to Parent
• Demographics of the Trans Community
• Desistance
• Detransition
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
• Dillon, Michael
• Discrimination
• Divorce, Psychological Issues
• DIY
• Drag Kings
• Drag Performativity
• Drag Queens
• DSM
• E
• Elbe, Lili
• Elected Officials
• Electoral Politics
• Embodiment
• Epidemiology
• Epistemologies
• Erasure
• Erickson, Reed
• Ethnographies
• F
• Fa’afafines
• Families: Transnational and Global Perspectives
• Family Therapy, Trans Youth
• Feinberg, Leslie
• Femininities and Femme
• Feminism
• Femmephobia
• Fertility Preservation
• Fiction
• Film
• Friendships
• G
• Garland, Jack Bee
• Gatekeeping In the Transition Process
• Geek Culture
• Gender Affirmative Model
• Gender Binaries
• Gender Clinics in the United States
• Gender Clinics Outside the United States
• Gender Creative
• Gender Dysphoria
• Gender Expression
• Gender Fluidity
• Gender Functions
• Gender Identity Discrimination as Sex Discrimination
• Gender Labels
• Gender Minority stress
• Gender Nonconformity
• Gender on Legal Documents
• Gender Panics
• Gender Pronouns
• Gender Recognition Technology
• Gender Rules
• Gender-Affirming Surgeries: Men, Bottom
• Gender-Affirming Surgeries: Men, Top
• Gender-Affirming Surgeries: Women
• Genderism
• GenderPAC
• Geographies
• H
• Harassment
• Health-Promoting Factors
• Health Care, Discrimination
• Health Care Access, Legal issues
• Health Care Training
• Health Determinants
• Health in Non-Western Contexts
• Heteronormativity
• Heterosexism
• High school sports
• Hijras
• Hirschfeld, Magnus
• History
• HIV/STIs
• Homelessness/Shelters
• Hormones, Adults
• Hormones, Youth
• Housing
• I
• ICD
• ICTLEP
• Identity Development
• Identity Politics
• Immigrants and Immigration
• Indigenous People
• Informed Consent Model
• Inmates and Incarceration
• Intellectual and Cognitive Disabilities, People With
• interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth
• International Classification of Diseases
• International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy
• International Pronouns Day
• International Transgender Day of Visibility
• Intersectionality in Research
• Intersex Society of North America
• Intersexuality
• Intimate Partner Violence
• J
• Jenner, Caitlyn
• Jennings, Jazz
• Jewish People
• Johnson, Marsha P.
• Jorgensen, Christine
• Juvenile Justice System
• K
• K-12 Policies/Climate
• Kink/BDSM Communities
• L
• Lambda Legal
• Latinx People
• Leadership
• LGBTQ Movement, Trans Inclusion In/Exclusion From
• M
• Māhū
• Manning, Chelsea
• Marriage
• Marriage, Divorce, and Parenting, Legal Issues
• Masculinities
• Measurement/Assessment issues In Research
• Medicine
• Mental Health
• Mentoring
• Microaggressions
• Migrants, Legal Issues
• Military/Military Ban
• Misgendering
• Mock, Janet
• Morris, Jan
• Murray, Pauli
• Museums
• MUSICIANS
• Muslim People
• Muxes
• N
• Naming Practices
• National Center for Lesbian Rights
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• NCLR
• NCTE
• Neurodiversity
• News Media Representations
• Nonbinary Genders
• Nondiscrimination Laws, Federal, State, and Local
• O
• Olympic Athletes
• Online Communities
• P
• Parent Advocacy Groups for Trans Children
• Parenthood, Transition to
• Parenting of Trans Children
• Parents of Trans Children and Youth, Custodial Issues
• Parents of Trans Children and Youth, Relationship Issues
• Partners of Trans People
• Phenomenology
• Philippines, Gender Categories
• Physical Disabilities, People With
• Planned Parenthood, Trans Inclusion
• Poetry and Poetics
• Police Relations
• Policing of Trans Bodies
• Pornography
• Pose (TV show)
• Poverty
• Pregnancy
• Preventive Health Care
• Preventive screening
• Prince, Virginia
• Prison Abolition
• Puberty Blockers
• Puberty
• Public opinion of/Climate for
• Q
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative Research
• Queer, Intersections With Trans
• Queer Theory and Trans People
• Queering Femininities
• R
• Racialized Femininities
• Racialized Masculinities
• Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria
• Reality TV
• Relationships With Children
• Relationships With Family as Trans Adults
• Relationships With Romantic/ Sexual Partners
• Relationships With Siblings
• Religion/spirituality of Trans People
• Religion/Spirituality, Support of/Opposition to Trans Rights
• Reparative Therapy
• Representations in popular culture
• Reproductive Health
• Research, Questions About Gender Identity
• Research, Recruitment and sampling
• Resiliency
• Richards, Renée
• Rivera, Sylvia
• S
• Scripted TV
• Sex Assignment
• Sex Therapy
• Sex Work
• Sex Workers
• Sexology
• Sexual Configurations Theory, Inclusion of Trans People
• Sexual Fluidity
• Sexual Health
• Sexual Violence
• Sexualities/Sexual Identities
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Sissy Boy Experience
• Social Class
• Social Media
• Social Media Influencers
• Social Transition
• Sororities and Fraternities
• South Asian Trans People
• STAR
• Stealth
• Stonewall Riots
• Substance Use
• Suicidality and Self-Harm
• Sullivan, Lou
• Supportive classroom practices
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project
• T
• Teacher Training and Support
• Teena, Brandon
• TERFs
• Therapist Training
• Therapy/Therapist Bias
• Third and Fourth Gender Roles
• Tipton, Billy
• Tom
• Tomboys (Philippines)
• Trans Men
• Trans People of Color Coalition
• Trans Pride Flag
• Trans Studies
• Trans Women
• Trans Women of Color Collective
• Transexual Menace
• Transgender as a Term
• Transgender Day of Remembrance
• Transgender Law Center
• Transgender Law conference
• Transmisogynoir
• Transmisogyny
• Transnormativity
• Transparent (TV Show)
• Transphobia
• Transpinay
• Trauma, Trans People With
• Travestis
• Tri-Ess
• Two-Spirit People
• U
• United States Transgender Survey (USTS)
• V
• Veterans
• Violence
• Voguing
• Voice Training
• W
• Women’s Colleges
• Women’s Movement, Trans Inclusion In/Exclusion From
• Workplace, Gender Transition
• Workplace Climate
• Workplace Policies
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health
• WPATH
• Y
• Youth and Teens, Legal Issues
• Youth and Teens, school Experiences
• Youth and Teens, Well-Being
• Youth and Teens of Color
• YouTube
• Appendix
• Archives
• Journals
• Websites
• Supplementary References