What’s in a trans name?

Advocate.com – Joanne Herman

Transsexual? Cross-dresser? Gender-queer? Under the ?transgender? umbrella are a range of people who deal with gender identity and gender expression in nontraditional ways. A primer on who?s who. Part 2 of The Advocate?s ongoing transgender series

Back in the 1980s, Billy Crystal?s Fernando character on Saturday Night Live claimed, ?It?s not how you feel, it’s how you look!? He was on the right track, except that how one feels can be equally important, as you will see.

What image comes to mind when someone says ?transgender?? RuPaul? Klinger from the TV series M*A*S*H? Dr. Frank ?N? Furter from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Bree, Felicity Huffman?s character in the movie Transamerica? Leslie Feinberg or Kate Bornstein?