What is a transvestite? Do they really have both sex genitals or is it a man that grew breasts?
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A tranvestite is an individual who is sexually or emotionally stimulated or satisfied by dressing in clothing of the opposite sex.\nA person who has undergone a sex change operation is called a transexual.
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For male to female transsexuals, yes, the results can be perfectly undetectable- it all looks as real as they come.\n\nFor female to male transsexuals, not so much.  To get the best of the best, it is prohibitively expensive and still doesn't look perfectly right, although it can come close.  But it still has a long way to go.\n\nOh, and as per functioning, yes and no.  Male to female constructed vaginas can either not be self-lubricating the way biological vaginas can, or they can be made to self-lubricate, but then they often still lubricate, but without control- meaning the person may have to wear kotex pads for the rest of their lives.  After surgery, some feeling may have gone, but generally everything feels the same and orgasms are just as fun, if a little different.  They can certainly urinate the same as a woman, as it only takes a little rerouting of the urethra.  And of course, male to female transsexuals can't menstruate or have children, since they don't have the internal workings of women.\n\nFemale to male transsexuals have many different surgeries and consider themselves fully transitioned, so it's a little harder to explain.  The point is that they can definitely still have orgasms, but of course can't ejaculate (unless it is female ejaculation that could be done beforehand, and only if they vagina wasn't sewn up- but even then, it comes from a different place, not from the 'penis').  If the new penis is an extension of the clitoris, then it can certainly get erect, just like women's clitorises.  If it's made of donor flesh, it can't get erect on its own, but FtM's use the same internal pumping erectile device that impotent men use.  If the urethra is rerouted through the clitoris or artificially created penis, then they can certainly pee through the organ like a biological penis.  Of course transmen can't impregnate a woman, since they have no sperm and similar internal structures.\nNeither can the new penises lubricate themselves like biological mens' secrete 'pre-cum'.  But they work well enough.\n\nHope that helps!
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A man who acts completely as a female, dressed as a woman, looking like a woman, and feminine built, but who didn't undergo surgery to change sex.
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Lack of education.  "To Wong Foo" said it best:\n\n"When a straight man puts on a dress and goes on a sexual kick he is a transvestite.  When a man is a woman, trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation he is a transsexual.  When a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen. And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress!"
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Sounds like your friend hooked up with a transexual. Here a shemale is a person who might have had breast augmentation or hormone treatment but still has the male bits downstairs.
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People are born with both genitals.  They're called hermaphrodites.
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do you mean a hermaphrodite?\nA person with both male and female sexual parts.
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Hermaphrodite is the correct name...This person is both male and female...it depends which sex/genda is more domineering as to what stands out.\n\nFor example:  A person looks female, but has a penis, but also has a uterus and ovaries for baby production.\nOr u can have a person that looks male but has a vagina.\n\nTo correct it depends on what the person wants there sex to be.  If they look female and want to be male they can have a hysterectomy where they remove all the uterus and leave them with a penis if they have them.\n\nIf it looks male then they do the opposite and can do the same surgery as above and make them female.
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There are only 2 genders.\nHermaphrodite's are of both genders but that is NOT a separate gender.\nTransgender is not a separate gender regardless of whether the chromosomes do not agree with the genitalia.
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A chick with a dick.\n\nSomeone who was born with both male and female parts.
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Of course, and I happen to know someone who fits that description!\nPlease note, though, that transvestite and transgender do not mean the same thing.
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If a person is truly a male to female (MtF) transsexual, then they are a woman on the inside, with the body of a male. They are not changing the person they are on the inside- they are changing the body to match the person on the inside.\n\nMany people who are MtF transsexual have learned to ACT like a male, but it's just an act- not the real person. That's why people get confused when the person starts acting like they normally would- as a woman, and not a man. People have only seen this person acting like a man, and not a woman, that's why they think acting like a woman is an act and not the real thing.\n\nBeing a female in a male body is definitely NOT a natural state for a woman to be in, so the male body is not natural for the woman in it.\n\nOK- to answer your question, some male bodied transgendered people manage to avoid the masculinizing effects of testosterone- you know, the baby faces, or girly faces? It makes it SO much easier to present to the world as a woman than someone that has strong masculine features. Hoever, if a person decides to change their sex even after years of exposure to testosterone, there are procedures lumped under the title FFS, Or Feminizing Facial Surgery.\n\nThere are also procedures such as liposuction, breast implants, and long term hormonal therapy.\n\nGoogle this website for some pictures of very pretty MtF transsexuals- Lynn Conway- look under transsexual women's successes and the photos section.\n\nAlso- something to think about- the reason why you never see ugly transsexual women is that most people just assume they are women- it's called stealth- there's no better way to hide than out in the open.\n\nHope this helps  =^.^=\n\nP.S. I am a MtF transsexual- not too bad looking, and if I walked past you in the mall, you would just assume I was just another woman. A little tall and Amazonish, but definitely a girl.
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Well, although you're mixing transgenderism with homosexuality, you are essentially correct. \n\nA woman who feels her gender is incorrect may get sexual reassignment surgery to become male. If she finds men attractive beforehand, but doesn't relate to them as a woman, she may be a transgendered gay man.\n\nA man who feels his gender is incorrect may get sexual reassignment surgery to become female. If he finds women attractive beforehand, but doesn't relate to them as a man, he may be a transgendered lesbian.\n\nIt doesn't happen often, but there are transgendered gay people. I've heard of a few trangendered lesbians.\n\nAs to being born gay, current scientific thinking is leaning toward a series of hormonal and genetic changes in the womb which determine sexual orientation. There are studies on birth order, twins, finger length, etc. all of which are determined in utero.
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After the estrogen shots, she (formally HE) decided to forego a complete sex change and opted to keep her (HIS) penis.  Is this the news you were referring to?
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A person born with the "opposite sex's genitals", or to put it better, who has mixed sex characteristics, is an intersexed individual.  'Hermaphrodite' is a more antiquated term, but 'intersexed' is the best right now.\n\nPeople who change their sex through surgery and hormones are called 'transsexuals'- not to be confused with 'transgenders', who are individuals who present mixed/opposite gender but do not intend to physically alter their bodies.\n\nHope that helps!
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A transvestite gets a change to be a woman ( gets breast and takes hormone pills). A crossdresser dresses like a woman.
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Men and women whose gender identity more closely matches the other physical sex are termed transsexual. These individuals desire to rid themselves of their primary and secondary sexual characteristics and live as members of the other sex.\n\nTranssexuals are diagnostically divided into the sub-categories of Primary or Secondary. Primary transsexuals display an unrelenting and high degree of gender dysphoria, usually from an early age (four to six years of age). Secondary transsexuals usually come to a full realization of their condition in their twenties and thirties, but may not act on their feelings until they are much older. Typically, secondary transsexuals first go through phases that would be self-assessed as being a "crossdresser or transgenderist."