https://www.genderlibs.org/tags/transgender/Recent content in Transgender on GenderLibsHugoenCopyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/08/transgender-vocabulary-stratigraphy/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/08/transgender-vocabulary-stratigraphy/Abstract Over the last four decades, public language for gender transition, transgender identity, and gender diversity in mainland China has accumulated through several institutional channels. State newspapers since the 1980s placed gender nonconformity within medical, social, and governance frames. In the 1990s, bianxing ren (变性人, literally a person who has “changed sex”) became highly visiblehttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2025/02/from-margins-to-mainstream-the-evolution-of-transgender-narratives-in-media-literature-and-digital-culture-1950-2024/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:35:29 +0800https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2025/02/from-margins-to-mainstream-the-evolution-of-transgender-narratives-in-media-literature-and-digital-culture-1950-2024/Transgender narratives – the stories and representations of transgender experiences – have gained increasing prominence in literature, media, and cultural discourse. These narratives range from personal memoirs and fiction to films, journalism, and online storytelling. They not only reflect individual journeys of gender identity but also shape public understanding and policy discussions. In recent decades, a growing body of scholarship has examined how transgender people tell their stories and how those stories are framed by society (1) (2).