Welcome to the Gender Diversity Wiki! This is an open platform dedicated to systematically organizing knowledge related to gender diversity. Gender Diversity refers to a broader range of gender identities and expressions beyond the traditional male-female binary, including transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, and other diverse groups.

This encyclopedia collects theoretical knowledge, historical research, cultural phenomena, and other long-term content, including: basic gender-related concepts, historical changes in gender-diverse communities, community cultural development, academic research findings, and artistic and literary expressions. We also focus on gender diversity issues and expressions in contemporary internet culture. It should be noted that this encyclopedia does not include specific medical resource information, handbooks, or guides with strong time sensitivity, nor does it constitute medical advice.

Main Content Sections

Our Knowledge section organizes theories about gender diversity, covering key concepts such as gender identity, gender expression, and biological sex. You’ll find clear explanations of gender-affirming medical knowledge, including terminology, principles, and risk assessments. We examine laws, policy changes, and historical developments of gender-diverse groups, especially in Chinese-speaking contexts. We also gather academic papers and research data, providing easy-to-understand summaries.

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In our Culture section, we explore how gender-diverse communities develop their cultures, language, and identities. We track discussions and opinions about gender diversity on social media platforms. We collect creative expressions and popular content from internet communities, showing how they evolve in the digital world. We share the experiences and challenges of different groups within the gender-diverse community.

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Our Topics section brings together conversations with fields like psychology, sociology, anthropology, literature, and art. We look at how gender diversity has been expressed throughout history and what it means today. We discuss how gender connects with other aspects of identity and showcase creative works by gender-diverse people across various media.

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The Gender Diversity Wiki is dedicated to building a knowledge beacon in the digital world, illuminating the history and future of gender-diverse groups. We believe that the power of knowledge can transcend time and space, connecting the past and future, creating a more inclusive and diverse world.

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Using hospital records, media narratives, administrative rules, community hotlines, litigation and surveys, and digital archives, this study reconstructs mainland China’s transgender public history through six documentary regimes and a reproducible source-card method.

Using 2006 forum traces, a 2009 Tieba community anchor, a 2017 cross-platform index, and tags still active in 2026, this guide develops a three-clock evidence method for reconstructing the platform migrations, taxonomies, and community memory of Chinese transformation fiction.

A practical comparison of transformation-fiction mechanisms through five fields: bodily carrier, acting viewpoint, memory and skills, social identity, and reversibility/control, grounded in current Chinese and Japanese platform usage and representative works.

A research encyclopedia entry traces how Japanese 男の娘 (otokonoko) moved through publishing, cosplay, physical venues, creator self-description, and platform tags from a media-character category into several forms of real-person labeling.

An archive-based chronology of Chinese online usage of weiniang (伪娘), nü zhuang dalao (女装大佬), and nanniang (男娘) since 2007, tracing shifts in character classification, creator self-description, audience labels, and platform discovery.

A guide to the 2026 Chinese programmer meme that pairs the Turing faction with the von Neumann faction, separating character templates, self-jokes, audience labels, technical praise, cross-dressing cues, and public tech-femboy self-description.

A research encyclopedia entry tracing six converging sources of contemporary Chinese nanniang culture: Japanese character publishing, cross-dressing and cosplay practice, Chinese ACG translation, mass-media circulation, platform interaction, and English-language femboy recirculation.

“扶她” (Japanese: ふたなり, romaji: Futanari, literally “dual form”) is a type of character in Japanese ACG (animation, comics, and games) culture. Such fictional characters appear visually female but also have male genitalia. As an artistic form of expression, it originally drew from historical Japanese depictions of...

“男娘” (English: “Femboy”, Japanese: “男の娘” [otoko no ko]) refers to individuals whose biological sex is male but who adopt a feminine appearance, clothing style, or behavioral manner for self-expression. As a form of gender expression, “男娘” differs both from the performance-oriented nature of drag queens, and from...