what is a transgendered person?

Answer 1

someone who thinks they are a man/woman trapped inside the other sex's body.

Answer 2

Someone who does not identify within society's proscribed roles for sex and gender- they cross (trans) gender.

These may be people who believe they embody both genders (masculine and feminine), neither, or are a so-called 'third gender', people who were born as either male or female but choose to live their lives as the other, but without surgery/hormones, cross-dressers, etc., etc..

Transgender is very rarely a term you can use about someone; rather, it is a term people use to describe themselves. For instance, a very butch woman may identify as a transgender individual (neither man nor woman, but blurring the lines), but a woman who acts and looks equally similar may say that she is just being a woman- who, except society, is to say how a woman should act? Indeed, we've come a long way from how we used to be expected to act. And the same argument can be applied to men or intersexed people or transsexuals or anyone at all, really. A transgendered person doesn't "look" any certain way- a very feminine woman or masculine man may identify as transgender, meaning that he/she feels they surpass gender barriers or incorporate different aspects of each.

Transgenders are not necessarily transsexuals, nor are transsexuals necessarily transgender. Transsexuals are individuals who change their sex (i.e. genitals) through surgery and hormones, and oftentimes, afterwards, they identify fully as their new sex, either male or female, and are just like any biological-born man or woman who is happy in his/her sex and gender. Those who opt not to go through such a change (because they don't want it, not because they don't have the money, resources, etc.) are transgenders. A lot of transgender people do decide to become transsexuals, but many stay happily as they are. Some transsexuals, post-surgery, still have the same transgender feelings (see Kate Bornstein for a very good explanation of this), even though they are completely happy in their new sex- they just realize that being all boy or all girl (gender-wise) is very stifling, and admit to being somewhat a mixture of each.

I hope that helps; it's a difficult subject, full of confusion.

Answer 3

A transgendered person is someone who crosses the society's so called normal aspect on gender and how it should be. Technically, anyone who is homosexual, bi-sexual, transsexual, crossdresses are all encompassed under the greater "transgender" umbrella.

This is a very confusing area for many to understand. Most of the time, people relate transsexualism as transgendered. But a person who is a transsexual is just one classification within transgender.

Answer 4

A transgender individual may have characteristics that are normally associated with a particular gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional gender continuum, or exist outside of it as "other," "agender," "intergender," or "third gender." Transgender people may also identify as both male and female, or along several places on either the traditional transgender continuum, or the more encompassing continuums which have been developed in response to the significantly more detailed studies done in recent years.

Answer 5

transgendered is an umbrella term that includes transsexuals, transvestites, crossdressers, drag queens, drag kings.

a transsexual is a person that is transitioning into the gender they feel most like and is also opposite the one they were born.

a transvestite dresses in the opposite gender for pleasure as do most crossdressers.

drag queesn and drag kinds are performers.

the only one trying to change gender is the transsexual.

so there fore a transgendered person is not necessarily going to get the sex change.

Answer 6

Transgender can be anything from a simple crossdresser to a transexual who wishes to have surgery to their genitalia to become a person of the opposite sex.

Answer 7

a transgendered person is either a girl that has a penis or a guy that has a vagina.

Answer 8

Someone whose gender does not match their body exactly. This includes crossdressers, transsexuals, and all the other people out there that break traditional gender norms.

Answer 9

transgendered or transexual means born one and through surgery became the other.

transvestite is someone who is hetersexual but enjoys dressing like the oposite sex.

Answer 10

A person who was born in the wrong body and had the courage to fix it.