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Transgender is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as male, female, both or neither) not matching one's "assigned gender" (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex). Definitions are set forth below, but the precise definition for transgender remains in flux. "Of, relating to, or designating a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender, but combines or moves between these" (Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Entry 2004) "People who were assigned a gender, usually at birth and based on their genitals, but who feel that this is a false or incomplete description of themselves." "Non-identification with, or non-presentation as, the gender one was assigned at birth." A transgender individual may have characteristics that are associated with a particular gender, identify elsewhere on the gender continuum, or exist outside of it as "other " or "third gender." The term transgender was coined in the 1970s by Virginia Prince in the USA, as a contrast with the term "transsexual," to refer to someone who does not desire surgical intervention to "change sex," and/or who believes that they fall "between" genders, not identifying fully, or strictly, as either male or female. [1](Holly. 1991 "The Transgender Alternative.? TV/TS Tapestry Journal 59:31-33). Often in older writings (pre ~1990s), but more rarely today, the term transgender is used to refer to those who live as the gender opposite to their birth gender without medical or surgical intervention. In the Netherlands, the term is often applied to this specific group. This group is also sometimes known as "transgenderists" or "non-op transsexual people". (See "Transsexual" below.) More recently, this term has been used to describe anyone who does not strictly adhere to the gender norms of their peers, whether in terms of physiology or choice of fashion. This would include anyone, male or female, who chooses to wear clothing normally worn by the opposite sex. Alejandra can be reached at (415) 240-9070 Listener line is (415) 992-7792   E-mail us at [email protected]   Opening Music by:  Heather Headley IN MY MIND off of the CD Nobody wants to be lonely   Closing music by: Ari Gold Love will take over (remix) Jkriv's love lounge Extend mix   All songs a available @ Itunes music store.