Transgender/Transexual?

Question

I know that when you're a tansexual you are either going from mtf or ftm, but is transgender something different or is that just another word for ts?

Answer 1

Transgender, from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society.

Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as male, female, both or neither) not matching one's "assigned gender" (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex). Transgender does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation (transgender people may identify as queer, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual or asexual.)


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.


Transsexual people are often people who desire to have, or have achieved, a different physical sex from their original physical sex. One typical (though oversimplified) explanation is of a "woman trapped in a man's body" or vice versa. Many transsexual women state that they were in fact always female gender, despite physically being male; transmen feel exactly the opposite.

The process of physical transition for transsexual people usually includes hormone replacement therapy and may also include sexual reassignment surgery (a.k.a. gender reassignment surgery). Having a strong wish for surgery does not have to be present to meet the requirement for the diagnosis, as a number of transwomen do not feel uncomfortable with the male appendage. For transwomen, electrolysis for hair removal is often desired, while many transmen have breast-reduction surgery as early as possible.

Answer 2

Transgender is an overarching umbrella term used to describe anyone who's sexuality is outside of their birth gender norms. This encompasses Homosexuals, Bi-Sexuals, Transsexuals and Crossdressers.

A Transsexual is a person who desires to have their physical sex changed through hormones and or surgery.

Answer 3

Same thing, technically. Words have trends - "TG" is now in, "TS" is out.
But some argue one means a person in the process, the other one who has completed it.
And others argue 'gender' is all of YOU, 'sexuality' is part of YOU.

I don't think it matters, personally, but all the organisations and sites seem to favour TG, so just stick with that.

Answer 4

nicely if he's contained in the skill of adjusting right into a woman and transgender then they might technically be a straight away couple. If it replaced into 2 men in a relationship then confident he's/replaced into gay watching the status of his spouse. If she trans then they're now in a guy and woman relationship even with the undeniable fact that he replaced right into a guy previously.

Answer 5

A Transsexual person is someone who has undergone surgery to become a woman (if biologically born male) or a man (if biologically born female).

A Transgender person is some who hasn't undergone gender reassignment surgery.

Answer 6

no....the word transgendered or transgender means that you identify your self as a person of the gender opposite that from which you were born. in my case, i am a TGirl. i was born male, still have the male organ (until next august), but outwardly i present myself to the world as a female.