Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.
For example, the term status is used in reference to the legal state of being an infant, a ward, or a prisoner, as well as in reference to a person's social standing in the community.tatus. STATUS. The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property. 2 Bouv. Inst.
Definition of Social Status We define social status as the extent to which an individual or group is respected or admired by others (e.g., Ridgeway & Walker, 1995). Like all bases of hierarchy, status can be either an intragroup or an intergroup phenomenon.efinition of Social Hierarchy Social hierarchy is an implicit or explicit rank order of individuals or groups with respect to a valued social dimension. We use the words implicit and explicit to capture the range of awareness that people have of the hierarchies in which they are embedded.