I always get this screwed up. I'm writing a story about a girl who is actually a boy. But "she" dresses, acts as, and in all other aspects except physical IS a girl. She has not had a sex change.
I know between transexual and transgenderist one of them is someone who has had a sex change and one of them is like the girl I have mentioned above.
This is NOT cross-dressing. And don't give me any of those stupid 'God will punish people who do things like this' answers. Get over yourself. No one cares.
2006-09-12 18:52:19 · 9 answers · asked by drunkon80 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Perhaps I should also add that the person I'm writing about dresses this way because she considers herself a girl. She feels like a girl. She IS girl.
2006-09-12 19:01:24 · update #1
hey hey, i study gender woot woot ^_^ Infact, i have an entire gender education community more than willing to welcome you to read our threads. i'll post links below.
Okay, here's the scoop:
1) Sex and gender are two different things. One is body, one is a social identity.
2) some people do not feel that their social identity fits with the gender identity someone attached to them at birth. they might consider themselves transgendered if they identify as a different gender (or nongendered like me)
3) some people are not comfortable with their body shapes, sensations, dynamics etc. they might seek surgery as a means to align their sense of body with their physical body. Regardless of whether or not they decide to seek sex reassignment surgery, they might identify as transexual.
4) A person does not have to be transgendered to be transexual.
5) A person does not have to be transexual to be transgendered.
6) Trans is an umbrella term meaning transexual, and/or transgendered (and some identify other things to this: Trans_______)
7) MTF is an abbreviation of male to female transexual
8) FTM is an abbreviation of female to male transexual
9) There are other variations such as MTFM and FTMF etc.
10) It kinda gets more complicated from there...
11) Advice for your story wording and concepts: If she is a transgirl/woman, she is not a boy, whether or not she has transitioned. Gender identity is not for anyone else to define except for the individual person defining themselves, regardless of anatomical sex. ^_~ (Some trans people are rather sensitive about the whole "your not a real girl/boy/gendervariant/nongendered person until your body changes...) You seem sincere about trans story writing and i'd like to see you succeed and end up with a healthy reception from your reading audience ^_~
I hope i have helped to clarify some of your questions.
Goodluck! ^_^ Have any more? feel free to email me through this or one of the links.
-Gabriel (<-- identifies as non op (no opperation) nontraditional trans who is queersexual as opposed to a mainstream sexual orientation)
PS please, consider refraining from using the phrase "opposite sex" as, erm, it is actually very highly discriminatory against intersexes (there are actually over 30 biological sexes that are naturally occuring chromosomal sexes... not just two sexes at polar ends of a scale ^_~)
2006-09-12 23:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ok. I'm a transsexual myself and even I had to look this one up. From what I've read, a transgenderist is someone that decides not to get srs while a transsexual is someone that transitions to living their life as their true self. A transsexual may or may not decide to get the operation. It seems a transgenderist is just a non-op transsexual. From what I've heard and read many transmen don't get any genital operations done because the costs aren't worth the results. Good luck with the story, and send me a link to it once it's done!
Edit: Different people have different definitions for many words created by the GLBT communities, so there is some grey area in what some words mean.
2006-09-13 13:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by carora13 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, and I may be wrong, that a transexual likes to dress in womens clothes,but doesn't want to actually be a woman. They may not always be gay either. A transgenderist actually goes through the change, because the feel that they are trapped in the wrong body. I mean, they actually feel like a girl when they really are a boy. I may be wrong, but I think that's what it is.
2006-09-13 01:56:24 · answer #3 · answered by Pamela N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Transexuals dress and act like the opposite sex. Transgenderists have become the opposite sex.
2006-09-13 16:58:57 · answer #4 · answered by Surviving on love 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Transexuals dress and act like the opposite sex. Transgenderists have BECOME the opposite sex.
2006-09-13 01:55:45 · answer #5 · answered by surfinthedesert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A transsexual goes for the change of sex, fysically. They feel like they should be the opposite gender and go through the transition.
A transvestite only wears clothes of the other sex. They do not neccesarily want to be the other sex.
Transgenderism is more all the grey levels between the genders. A transgender feels in between the genders. They might dress like the 'opposite' gender, but that does not have to be the case.
2006-09-13 02:05:48 · answer #6 · answered by Bloed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Transgenderist don't always chage genders, atleast I didn't think. Some even change back. They do feel trapped in the wrong body though.
2006-09-13 02:07:45 · answer #7 · answered by 4me2no&u2findout 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
transexual is the one who acts and pretends to be the other sex and transgenderist is the one who had the surgery.
2006-09-13 01:57:53 · answer #8 · answered by knowssignlanguage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trangender is a broad term covering every one that expresses the gender side opposite there sex.
Transsexuals have the brain of the opposite sex and thus know that there gender is not what there sexual organs would show them to be.
Tammi Dee
2006-09-13 02:08:37 · answer #9 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋