difference between a transsexual and a transgendered?
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There is a very fine line between both terms:\n\nBoth, overall, indicate someone who believes they are a different sex than they were born into.\n\nClassically though, transgendered meant someone who feels they're in the wrong body but just acts the opposite sex or desires to be the opposite sex. Transsexual referred to someone who surgically or chemically undergoes changes to be more like the opposite sex.\n\nOr alternatively, someone who feels they fall between sexes but don't feel discretly male or female.\n\nAs simplistic as the above is, the issue is compondounded further because the terms are used interchangably. Some refer to both classes as transgendered, feeling the need to remove the "sex" reference in the name, but there are transgendered people that don't feel they fit the category of transsexual, ie, they do not wish to change sexes.\n\nOn the flipside, some transsexuals reject the transgendered term all-together.\n\nWikipedia has an excellent article when it comes to trying to differentiate between transgendered and transsexualism, but in the end, it means slightly different things to different people.
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Uh... almost what everyone above me said, but in reverse.\n\nA transexual is (usually) someone who has had, or is pursuing, surgical alteration of their genitalia to match those of the sex he or she is transitioning to, and always someone who is living full time in that chosen gender.  A few consider themselves "no-op" and aren't seeking the surgery but are otherwise the same.  (This option is more common among ftm transexuals, and I think part of it is due to the inadequacies of ftm GRS.)\n\nTransgender includes transexuals, and is often the preferred term for those who go with 'no-op,'  but it also includes crossdressers and transvestites (men or women who only dress as the opposite gender part time.)
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Most hermaphrodites are "given" one sex or the other shortly after birth.  The parents are asked to choose the sex or if one set of organs is more prominent than the other, that is the sex that is chosen.  In this day and age, very few hermaphrodites make it to adulthood without a specific sexual identity.  So, the question becomes moot.
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You could try:\n\nwww.transgender.org\n\nFor a list of organization, look at:\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/cultures_and_groups/lesbian__gay__bisexual__and_transgendered/transgendered
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What do you mean??? you need to be more specific!!!\nTranssexuals are people that have an operation to change their sex.\nLife wise they try and fit in as normally as possible! there was a transexual (man to woman) at my uni, to be honest I knew he looked at bit strange but never knew properly for 2 years.\nSex wise, surgeons try to make them operate as normally as possible but M-F can sometimes get problems as their vagina may heal over and they have no lubrication and feel no sexual sensation in this area.\nhope that helps.
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you can be a transexual by having a sex change....either male to female or female to male.....\nor by just relating to the opposite sex more....and to the person who answered previously...i dont see how the question is disgusting..
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A hermaphrodite will have both male and female parts, so you would need a medical exam, maybe xrays.  A pre-operative transsexual will have male genitals, but a post-operative might look like a woman--x-rays would probably be needed.
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TV:  a guy that dresses in womens clothes, nothing more, nothing less.  See "cxossdresser".\n\nTS:  a person of one sexuality living in the body of another sex.  For instance: a person appearing to the outside world as female but has male genitalia, it is really a "SHE" inside.  a real feminine woman.  The problem is fixed by surgery.  Usually this person will get a boob job first, followed by facial feminization surgery and then the final is the full genital surgery to become a full woman.\n\nTG: A person similar to above, but doesn't want to change the genitals (not interested in having surgery.)  STill considers "herself" a woman even thou she might still have a peni$.   Boob jobs and facial surgery are common.  Both TS's and TG's will see a doctor and get female hormones to change their bodies.\n\nShemale:  A hollywood porn term that most of the TS's and TG's abhor.  Don't ever speak this word in front of them or they will pummel your nuts into tiny little specks.   A Shemale is usually what you see when you go to the transclubs and they are performing on stage.  See: Female impersonators.  They have had boob jobs and facial surgery and they do shows/entertainment for a living.  They are about the same level as a crossdresser but only with some surgery.\n\nThe link below will answer many questions.   Just make sure you obey their rules in the chat room or they will throw you out.  if you come in there and ask: "where are the hot shemale babes?"  they will ban you for life.\nBe respectful.  they are real women, not freaks.  I've dated a few of them.  Some are nice, some aren't.  they are just ordinary people with an extra problem they have to deal with.\nDon't make them into a fetish object, they can tell and they will hate you.\n\ngood luck.\n<g>\ntom
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lookin at your avatar & reading this question is far to sweet & innocent...hermaphrodites are human like you & I except hermaphrodites have both a vagina & a penis...some may tend to lean on one gender more than the other i.e.choosing to be more female than male(dress & look like female)...or the other way around.Hermaphrodites go through tough trials & tribulations in life in/out of family relationships due to having both sex organs...sometimes leaving them abused/molested as children many times by family members & what not.
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Transsexuality is referred to in the DSM-IV as Gender Identity Disorder. It's the idea that their birth gender is opposed to the gender they perceive themselves as. Meaning, guys feel like girls, or girls feel like guys. This is different from sexual identity (straight, gay, etc.). Gender identity and sexual identity are distinct from one another. Wrap your head around that one and you got it. \n\nThe sexual identities of transsexuals are usually lumped into categories; straight, gay/les., and asexual (not interested in either guys or girls). A guy who becomes a girl and likes girls is considered gay, for example. Whereas a girl who becomes a guy and likes girls is straight. The exact numbers aren't known, but more of the transsexual crowd identifies as gay/les or asexual than in society as a whole. We're just not sure how much more. \n\nOther researchers such as Bailey and Blanchard have forwarded other ideas. They say transsexuals are mostly sexually interested in themselves and nothing more than warped gays. Bailey and Blanchard aren't very popular with the GBLT crowd for other reasons, too.  \n\nIt's a little confusing, I agree. When I was learning about it those were my first questions, too. Hope this helps.
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SPELL CHECK! OH btw it's transsexual not shemale thank you.
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Transsexuals are the other gender, I think. Because they're men or women who want to be the other sex.
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This is a very difficult question.\n\nBeing a transsexual is a very different state of being than being homosexual or bisexual.\n\nThe first thing to know is that that being a transsexual is mostly a state of feeling like the other gender. Something deep inside of you is telling you that you are something- but the reality of your physical being says that you are something else. Here two worlds collide because you feel either you are wrong or reality is wrong.\n\nFeelings are something on the inside and are difficult to evaluate to top it all off because feelings can change people tend not to trust them. \n\nBut if that feeling is very strong and stays strong during a long period of time then that is a definate sign that you do feel that you are the other gender. \n\nHowever there are many psychological conditions that can bring on feelings of being the other gender: Schizophrenia, psychosis, autism, childhood abuse.\n\nThe best thing to do is to go the Henry Benjamin site and find a trained counselor in transsexual matters near you. This association sets standards for the treatment of gender dysphoria as it is called. By treatment I mean that a counselor will help you sort out all of that confusion inside of you and help you see clearly if you want to be a boy or a girl and how to become that person that you want to be\n\nhttp://www.hbigda.org/\n\nBest of luck
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First of all, let a real transsexual (me) ring in on this one.\n\nOk, first a few definitions-\n\nSex is physical and is determined by genes\nGender is the inborn feeling that you are a male or a female\nSexual orientation is who you are attracted to sexually\n\nSex is between the legs, gender is between the ears, and sexual orientation is who you want between the sheets.\n\nThat being said, a person can be born who is physically and genetically male, but through an accident that occurred in the womb, the brain never got masculinized (turned into a male brain). The fetus gets masculinized both physically and mentally by the presence or absence of hormones in the womb. If the hormones are present too early, too late, or the baby is insensitive to them, the baby will not be completely masculinized. Also, it seems that female is the natural, or default mode for fetuses. So, basically, you can have a baby who is genetically male and has male genitals, but who is female mentally. This is what happened to me.\n\nI am a straight woman in a male body, and I am getting surgery to straighten out what happened to me. So, as a straight woman, I am interested in straight men, (or at least bisexual), someone who is attracted to me as a woman.\n\nI am not interested in gay men as sexual partners- they do not appeal to me. I am also not interested in "converting" a man to being gay. It is not in my best interest to convert men to being gay- they want a man with a penis- I am not male, nor do I want a penis or look like a man.\n\nI once had a boy friend who confided in me he was gay, he knew he ws gay, and he hoped that dating me would make him straight. He was disappointed that I was so much like a female- we fought over the same things women and men fight over. We split up eventually- I was not what he was interested in- I am not a man. I have also had a male friend who was painfully heterosexual confide in me that he would have never have considered having a gay relationship, but there was a certain "female vibe" I gave off, and he couldn't stop thinking about me- he told me it drove him to distraction. He also told me that although I had a male body, he found it hard to think of me as a male.\n\nI would hazard to guess that many of the men that were interested in me in a sexual capacity were completely straight, or bisexual- no gay man would be interested in me sexually. Maybe they thought they would "have the best of both worlds", but I disappointed them in that I am completely a female mentally. I may have the body of a male, but not the mentality of one.
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transexual women are women. that does not make you gay or them gay if they like men because they are women. even if they still have the penis it will eventually be turned into a vagina and they will be legally women as well.
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Gladly!\n\nA transgender individual is one who does not fit into traditional definitions of gender (gender being the way one looks and behaves).  There are many 'varieities' of transgendered people, so to speak, from those who feel they embody both masculine and feminine characteristics and hence aren't truly one or the other, those who feel they are both, neither, or are a 'third gender', so to speak, some cross-dressers and other folk who don't necessarily think of themselves as men or women in the way that society defines men and women.  They do not alter their bodies with surgery or hormones, however.\n\nTranssexuals usually have gender dysphoria, where they feel a mind-body dissonance (that they were born in the wrong body), and they take steps to remedy that with surgery and hormones.  Oftentimes transgender individuals will become transsexuals, and some transsexuals, even after their transitions, will realize that they are transgender, and that although they love and prefer their new bodies, they still have traits of each within them (for a wonderful discussion of this, read some of Kate Bornstein's work).\n\nHope that helped!  A lot of people confuse the term- I'm trying to set them all straight, but it will take a while . . .
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First of all its not trangendered, it is "Transgendered".\nIt means appearing as, wishing to be considered as, or having undergone surgery to become a member of the opposite sex.\nTransgender, therefore, is the state of one's identity not matching one's assigned gender, which is usually based on physical/genetic sex, or of falling into multiple categories in terms of gender and sexual identification.