transgenderism

Based on true events, Kinky Boots tells the story of Charlie Price, who turns an ailing Northampton shoe factory into a roaring success by catering for a niche market - that of drag queens or 'transgenderists' demanding thigh-high red boots that offer "two-and-a-half feet of irresistible tubular sex".

Transgenderists: Products of non-normative intersections of sex, gender and sexuality.

Yet these works have shown very little concern for the individuals who live, work, and identify themselves as drag queens, transsexuals, or transgenderists" (2000, 9).

Bockting included male-to-female and female-to-male transsexuals, transgenderists, bigender persons, drag queens and drag kings, and female and male impersonators.

Transsexuals only account for a small percentage of the transgender population as the term also encompasses transgenderists (individuals who live part or full -time as the opposite sex but do not desire sexual reassignment surgeries), and intersex (patients born with atypical chromosomes, genitalia, or reproductive systems), and transvestites (Kenagy, Moses, & Ornstein, 2006).

As the economy collapsed around him last week, the PM found time to host a Downing Street reception for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenderists. He used the knees-up to reaffirm his commitment to legalising gay marriage by 2015, riding roughshod over the wishes of traditionalists in the Church.

The commission says that, among other things, it includes transgenderists, transsexuals, cross-dressers, drag kings and queens, and even gender variants who may not identify with either sex.

Transgender is a grassroots political term that emerged in the early 1990s to refer to a "big-tent" approach to gender diversity; it's an umbrella term that encompasses transsexuals, cross-dressers (formally termed transvestites), transgenderists, drag queens and drag kings, gender-benders, and a wide array of differing identity categories that connote gender-diverse individuals and constituencies.

This definition includes transvestites and transgenderists (part-time and full-time cross-dressers), transexuals (both before and after sex-reassignment operations), and androgynous and intersex (ambiguous or multisex) persons (Carroll & Gilroy, 2002; Gainor, 2000).

For example, in Gagne and Tewksbury's (1998) study of transgenderists (the majority of their volunteer sample consisted of preoperative MTF transsexuals and cross-dressers), most desired to refigure their bodies in such a way as to pass as women.