Transgender Resources : Definitions and Other Resources
Definitions
GENDER IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION-(as defined by Tompkins County law) a person's actual or perceived gender identity, gender-related self-image, gender-related appearance, gender-related behavioral or physical characteristics, or gender-related expression, whether or not that gender identity, gender-related self-image, gender-related appearance, gender-related behavioral or physical characteristics, or gender-related expression is different from that traditionally associated with the person's sex assigned at birth. This shall include but not be limited to a.) transsexuals in all stages of transition including preoperative, postoperative and persons living in a gender other than their birth sex; b.) persons (including cross-dressers) whose gender expression occasionally differs from their birth sex and c.) intersexed persons born with anatomy or physiology that includes medical characteristics of both male and female whose sex was assigned at birth and who sometimes manifest physical characteristics, expressions or identity that differs from the sex assigned.
Transgender person: A person whose gender identity does not fit conventional ideas of male or female.
TRANSSEXUAL -- a person whose physical sex is male and whose gender identity is female or a person whose physical sex is female and whose gender identity is male
Web Resources
Compliance Guidelines to Prohibit Gender Identity Discrimination. San Francisco, Human Rights Commission. (December 2003).
Mom, I Need To Be a Girl. 103-page booklet written by the mother of a transsexual child who transitioned while still in high school.
The Cutting Edge of Employment Diversity: Transgender Human Resources Policies in U.S. Employers. Dr. Jillian Todd Weiss, August 2004
Ways that Colleges and Universities Meet the Needs of Transgender Students.
Recommendations for Transgender Health Care.
FTM and MTF Trans Health Fact Sheets. National Coalition of LGBT Health