The transgender rights movement is having a moment. In April, nearly 17 million people tuned in to watch former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner announce to Diane Sawyer on 20/20that she is, in fact, a woman. Transgender celebrities are popping up on TV shows and magazine covers, even as cell phone videos of violence against trans people continue to pop up in Facebook feeds. (Meanwhile, Facebook itself now allows users to choose from dozens of genders for their profiles.) In his State of the Union address this past January, Barack Obama became the first president to publicly use the word “transgender”—a term that has been widely used to describe gender-non-conforming individuals since the 1980s, but one that a third of Americans still can’t define. Reproductive rights groups have even begun to excise the word “women” from their language, so as to encompass those who have transitioned from female to male: Now it’s not just women who get pregnant. People do.
[For more of this story, written by Kate Wheeling, go to http://www.psmag.com/health-an...ding-to-the-research]
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