Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics into an ambiguous form. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual identity. The different meanings of androgyny point to the complex interrelationship between aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality. When androgyny refers to mixed biological sex characteristics in humans, it often refers to intersex people. As a gender identity, androgynous individuals may refer to themselves as genderqueer, non-binary, or gender neutral...

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan (born May 3, 1987) is a Honduran American transgender rights activist and the first openly transgender person to work as a White House staffer. She was also the first openly transgender legislative staffer to work in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She served as director of external relations at the National Center for Transgender Equality, based in Washington, D.C. She is a longtime advocate and public policy specialist on matters concerning human rights, gender, and LGBT people.

• ... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
• ... that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?
• ... that the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont inspired the name of the transgender rights organisation the Beaumont Society?
• ... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"?
• ... that after trans woman Dylan Mulvaney was sponsored by Bud Light, American conservatives boycotted the brand and its parent company Anheuser-Busch?
• ... that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do?

• 7 – Karin Dreijer (1975), Swedish gender fluid singer-songwriter and record producer
• 8 – Roberta Cowell (1918), British trans woman racing driver and fighter pilot
• 13 – Carmen Carrera (1985), American television personality, actress and model
• 18 – Audrey Tang (1981), Taiwanese programmer and government minister
• 20 – Gigi Gorgeous (1992), Canadian actress, YouTuber, model
• 23 – Geraldine Roman (1967), Filipino journalist and politician
• 28 – Leiomy Maldonado (1987), American dancer, instructor and model
• 29 – April Ashley (1935), British model

• ... that the 2015 State of the Union Address was the first State of the Union Address in which the President of the United States used the words "gay", "lesbian", and "transgender"?
• ... that Nicole Maines won a Maine Supreme Court ruling that denying transgender students access to the bathroom consistent with their gender was unlawful, and went on to become the superheroine Dreamer in the television series Supergirl?
• ... that in 1776, a person reported being genderless, changed names to the Public Universal Friend, dressed androgynously, asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns, and has been called a chapter in transgender history "before 'transgender'"?

It is difficult to generate a counterdiscourse if one is programmed to disappear. The highest purpose of the medically defined transsexual is to erase h/erself, to fade into the "normal" population as soon as possible. Part of this process is known as constructing a plausible history--learning to lie effectively about one's past. What is gained is acceptability in society. ... In the transsexual's erased history we can find a story disruptive to the accepted discourses of gender.