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The portrayal of transgender people in the media list includes portrayals of transsexuals and many other non-cisgender identities in the mass media.
Terminology
Transgender (trans) is the state of one's gender identity or gender expression not matching one's assigned sex. Transgender men are people assigned female at birth who identify as men. Transgender women are people assigned male at birth who identify as women. Some gender nonconforming people do not identify with either male or female. Cisgender men and women are individuals whose gender experiences conform to the sex assigned to them at birth.
References
Media portrayals of transgender people Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA