Transgender and being part of the transgender community is the state of one’s gender identity, which is self identification as male, female, both or neither. It is not matching one’s assigned gender or identification by others as male or female, based on physical or genetic sex. The term transgender doesn’t necessarily suggest one’s sexual orientation. The meaning of transgender may identify individuals as heterosexual, homosexual or even bisexual.

A common situation among transgender individuals is having been born with genitals of one gender and feeling that they are incomplete. They may feel pulled sexually, spiritually, or they simply may feel incomplete, based on the sex they have been born as. To help transgender individuals, most large cities in America have developed a strong community to help transgender people cope.

There are many heterosexual and homosexual individuals who support the transgender community but are not transgender themselves. They offer their support to the community and work to make other, less accepting people, understand what transgender means. These transgender communities are brought together for two main reasons.

The first being to promote understanding amongst other non-transgender people, and the second to help transgender people themselves have a better understanding of who they are. Some transgender individuals have the hardest time accepting themselves. Support from a community of like minded people can be just what it needed.

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