ABSTRACT
Until this decade of the 1990s, the emerging transgender community consisted of three recognizable components: transsexuals, cross-dressers (usually heterosexual), and drag kings and queens. While the need to challenge culturally imposed stereotypes remains just as strong today, these three models have proven to be far from sufficient to describe the true range of transgender expression, ironically reinforcing the myth that there are only two genders, as defined by most contemporary assimilationist cultures. More and more people are not confining themselves to familiar territory and well-known labels like transsexual, cross-dresser, and drag, but are moving into new and unexplored space (Boswell, 1991).
