Americans who consider themselves transgender, Assistant Managing Editor
Debra Rosenberg and a team of Newsweek correspondents examines the
question: what makes us male or female? According to the National Center
for Transgender Equality there are estimated between 750,000 and 3 million
Americans (fewer than 1 percent)-many taking their intimate struggles
public for the first time-who consider themselves transgender. With more
and more young people identifying as a gender other than the one they were
born with, and a growing number of schools like Smith College supporting
their desire to live as the gender of choice, history and science suggest
that gender is more subtle and more complicated than anatomy. Correspondent
Julie Scelfo is available for interviews.