{"id":6731,"date":"2020-01-06T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:49:15","slug":"transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/transgender\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of Transgender Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gender identity is the term used to describe a person\u2019s sense of being male, female, neither, or some combination of both. The terms \u201ctransgender,\u201d \u201ctranssexual,\u201d \u201ctrans,\u201d \u201cgender nonbinary,\u201d \u201cgender incongruent,\u201d and \u201cgenderqueer\u201d are adjectives for persons with gender identities that are not aligned with the sex recorded at birth. \u201cCisgender\u201d is the term for persons who are not transgender &#8211; that is, persons whose sex recorded at birth aligns with their gender identity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sex and gender<\/strong><br \/>\nUmbrella terms used to reference biologic characteristics, gender identification, and stereotypical behaviors considered male, female, or variation thereof<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender identity<\/strong><br \/>\nInternal sense of being male or female or identifying with both or neither<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transgender, transsexual, trans, gender nonbinary, gender incongruent, genderqueer<\/strong><br \/>\nAdjectives for persons with gender identity not aligned with sex recorded at birth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cisgender, nontransgender<\/strong><br \/>\nAdjectives for persons with gender identity aligned with sex recorded at birth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender expression<\/strong><br \/>\nWays in which a person communicates gender identity to others<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender-affirming or gender-confirming hormone treatment and surgery<\/strong><br \/>\nMedical and surgical interventions for transgender persons performed to align appearance with gender identity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender dysphoria<\/strong><br \/>\nMental health term that refers to discomfort felt by some persons owing<br \/>\nto lack of alignment between gender identity and sex recorded at birth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sexual orientation<\/strong><br \/>\nTerm that characterizes pattern of romantic or sexual attraction to other<br \/>\npeople, independent of gender identity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intersex<\/strong><br \/>\nTerm for conditions in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit typical definitions of female or male. Also known as DSD (differences of sexual differentiation).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principles of treatment<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are several criteria for the prescription of\u00a0hormone therapy. These include persistent gender incongruence, capacity to make informed treatment decisions, and reasonable control of associated mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Collin L, Reisner SL, Tangpricha V, Goodman M. Prevalence of Transgender Depends on the &#8220;Case&#8221; Definition: A Systematic Review. J Sex Med. 2016;13(4):613\u2013626. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27045261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Safer JD, Tangpricha V. Care of Transgender Persons. N Engl J Med. 2019;381(25):2451\u20132460. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31851801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Jan 03, 2020.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criteria"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6731"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9179,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions\/9179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}