Talk:Transgender/FAQ

This talk subpage is dedicated to creating and refining a FAQ list to reduce repetitive questions. Please join us by improving both the page and the article. If you add a question, please add a discussion sub-section for it. A cursory review of the archives suggests that a lot of people touch on one of more of the questions below, but they could be sliced in dozens of ways.

Questions

1. Why does the article talk about sex and gender as if they were two different things?

   Answer: The preponderance of sources (as well as most societies) are coming to discuss sex and gender as separate concepts. Sex usually refers to physical or biological traits like endocrine system, genitals, and secondary sex characteristics. Gender refers to societal expectations and a person's expression of those and other characteristics, and most especially a person's gender identity. For a full explanation, please see the dedicated article on the sex–gender distinction.

2. Isn't this whole article pushing a liberal POV?

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3. Why do you mention both 'gender identity' and 'gender expression' separately?

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4. Why say 'sex assigned at birth' when you could just say 'sex'?

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5. Why does this article use such politically correct, 'woke' terms instead of plain English?

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6. What are cross-dressing and drag separated out as 'related'? Isn't that what 'transgender' means?

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7. Why do you use the obsolete initialism LGBT instead of the current LGTBQIA2S+?

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8. I keep reading about new laws in the state of _____. Why isn't that mentioned in the Law#United States section?

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Discussion

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Sex & Gender

Please note that the above answer is very much intended to start the conversation, not to end it. I don't think it's right and I wrote it. I have no emotional investment in any of the questions or their answers and I will not be offended if you shred them (nicely, of course). Cheers, Last1in (talk) 23:05, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

POV Pushing

ya ya ya

Identity & Expression

ya ya ya

Sex Assigned at Birth

ya ya ya

Wokeness

ya ya ya

X-Dress & Drag

ya ya ya

LGBT (et al)

ya ya ya