Transgender People and Binding, Tucking, and Packing

Trans people are those people who are not content to remain the gender they were assigned at birth and may identify as men (trans men) or as women (trans women) or as something outside the gender binary. Those people under the broad umbrella term of trans who do not identify as men or as women may identify as nonbinary, genderqueer, or one of a number of other terms. Those people who do not identify with any gender form may identify as agender, neutrois, or one of a number of other terms.

This entry discusses the ways in which trans people can alter the outward appearance of the bodies to be congruent with the gender they identify as. For example, people may wish to effect the outward ...