transgender ট্রান্সজেন্ডার transkønnet transgender transgénero transgenre ट्रांसजेंडर տրանսգենդեր transkjønnet transgênero transgjinor transcinsiyet human homosexuality obsolete medical term transgender ট্রান্সজেন্ডার transkønnet transgender transgénero transgenre ट्रांसजेंडर տրանսգենդեր transkjønnet transgênero transgjinor transcinsiyet Uranismus uranism http://homosaurus.org/v2/uranians https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001484 https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0001564 A 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex—originally, someone with "a female psyche in a male body" who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a number of other sexual types. Before entering upon this, however, it may be explained that the word uranism, widely used in Europe is understood to mean sexually inverted love. It is generally used in reference to male subjects but is extended by some writers to include the feminine sphere as well. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs derived Uranian (Urning in German) from the Greek goddess Aphrodite Urania, who was created out of the god Uranus' testicles. Therefore, it represents the homosexual gender, while Dionian (Dioning), derived from Aphrodite Dionea, represents the heterosexual gender. Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual, which appeared in 1869 in a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–82). The term Uranian was quickly adopted by English-language advocates of homosexual emancipation in the Victorian era, such as Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, who used it to describe a comradely love that would bring about true democracy, uniting the "estranged ranks of society" and breaking down class and gender barriers. Oscar Wilde wrote to Robert Ross in an undated letter (?18 February 1898): "To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble—more noble than other forms." congenital sexual inversion uraniadism uranian uranianism uranist urningism similisexualism Uranismus oder Päderastie und Tribadie bei den Naturvölkern Uranism or Pederasty and Tribadism in Primitive Folk The Complete Dictionary of Sexology Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore The A – Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze