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TRANSGENDER MAN [3 records]

Record 1 2024-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
OBS

Perceptions about gender identity are often predicated on stereotypes relating to gender expression(for example, what a transgender man "should" look like).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
OBS

Les perceptions relatives à l'identité de genre s'appuient souvent sur des stéréotypes liés à l'expression de genre (par exemple l'apparence que «devrait» avoir un homme transgenre).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las relaciones humanas
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Record 2 2024-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
DEF

Referring to a person whose gender does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.

OBS

The opposite of cisgender.

PHR

transgender man, transgender woman

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
  • Sociologie
DEF

Se dit d'une personne dont le genre ne correspond pas au sexe qui lui a été assigné à la naissance.

OBS

Le contraire de cisgenre.

PHR

femme transgenre, homme transgenre

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología
  • Sociología
PHR

persona transgénero

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Record 3 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
DEF

A person who was assigned female at birth, but identifies and lives as a man.

Key term(s)
  • F2M

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie
  • Sociologie
CONT

Un homme trans est un homme pour qui le médecin avait coché F à la naissance.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología
  • Sociología
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