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What does "transgender" mean"
“Transgender” is a word that has come into widespread use only in the past couple of decades, [so] its meanings are still under construction. I use it in this book to refer to people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth, people who cross over (trans-) the boundaries constructed by their culture…
It is the movement across a socially imposed boundary away from an unchosen starting place -- rather than any particular destination or mode of transition -- that best characterizes the concept of “transgender” that I want to develop here.
Susan Stryker, Transgender History
