A College Project (Please Look At)

So I'm doing a project for my Honors class where I have to do something to bring awareness to certain gender issues that aren't well known or rarely talked about. To do so, for the next week, I'm going to be posting studies, stories, and articles about transgenders and hope to bring some awareness to them. This isn't the only place I'll be posting this as I'm trying to get to as much of an audience as possible.

I want to start this off with a quick question about your common understanding of what it means to be a transgender and what their situation is. What do you know about transgenders, if you know anything at all? Please share with me and help me with my project. Thank you!