Editing Gender role (section)

=== Transgender and cross-dressing ===
{{Main|Transgender|Legal status of transgender people}}
[[File:Camille Cabral pour les Trans.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Camille Cabral]], a transgender activist at a demonstration for transgender people in Paris, 1 October 2005]]

Transgender is the state of one's [[gender identity]] or gender expression not matching one's [[assigned sex]].<ref name="glaad.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender |title=GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Transgender glossary of terms |website=[[GLAAD]] |date=May 2010 |access-date=24 February 2011}}</ref> Transgender is independent of [[sexual orientation]]; transgender people may identify as [[heterosexual]], [[homosexual]], [[bisexual]], etc.; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The definition of ''transgender'' includes:
* "Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex."<ref>{{cite web |title=Definition of transgender in English by Oxford Dictionaries |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/transgender |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925144023/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/transgender |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 September 2016 |website=Oxford Dictionaries |access-date=18 June 2018}}</ref>
* "People who were assigned a sex, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves."<ref name="usi">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080608075230/http://www.usilgbt.org/index.php?categoryid=35 USI LGBT Campaign – Transgender Campaign]". Retrieved 11 January 2012.</ref>
* "Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the sex (and assumed gender) one was assigned at birth."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stroud.gov.uk/info/gender_equality_scheme.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227114158/http://www.stroud.gov.uk/info/gender_equality_scheme.pdf |url-status=dead |title=Stroud District Council "Gender Equality SCHEME AND ACTION PLAN 2007" |archivedate=27 February 2008}}</ref>

While people self-identify as transgender, the transgender identity umbrella includes sometimes-overlapping categories. These include [[transsexual]]; [[cross-dresser]]; [[genderqueer]]; [[Androgyny|androgyne]]; and [[bigender]].<ref name="ryan">{{Cite journal |title=Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling |first1=Caitlin C. |last1=Ryan |first2=Donna |last2=Futterman |journal=Adolescent Medicine |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=207–374 |year=1998 |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |isbn=978-0-231-11191-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/lesbiangayyouthc0000ryan/page/49 |pmid=10360017}}</ref> Usually not included are [[transvestic fetish]]ists (because it is considered to be a [[paraphilia]] rather than gender identification), and [[drag kings]] and [[drag queens]], who are performers who cross-dress for the purpose of entertaining. In an interview, celebrity drag queen [[RuPaul]] talked about society's ambivalence to the differences in the people who embody these terms. "A friend of mine recently did the ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]'' show about transgender youth", said RuPaul. "It was obvious that we, as a culture, have a hard time trying to understand the difference between a drag queen, transsexual, and a transgender, yet we find it very easy to know the difference between the [[American League|American baseball league]] and the [[National League (baseball)|National baseball league]], when they are both so similar."<ref name=DS>[[n:RuPaul speaks about society and the state of drag as performance art|Interview with RuPaul]], David Shankbone, ''[[Wikinews]]'', 6 October 2007.</ref>