LGBTQIA+ education corner

Next up: Transgender
[Not cisgender]
 

TRANSGENDER is an identity many people use whose self-experienced gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, a transgender person might be someone who identifies and lives as a woman but whose birth-assigned sex was male. Other transgender people identify as somewhere in between the societally recognized genders of a man and woman, as neither, or as one gender at some times and another gender at other times.
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TRANS can be an umbrella term used to refer to transgender, genderqueer, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. The colors of the transgender flag are incorporated here.
When someone shares their identity, honor that self-understanding by using the words, pronouns, and identity terms they provide

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