2007-01-16 11:03:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
A surgically altered man on woman to reflect genders that they were not born with.
2007-01-16 11:06:12 · answer #1 · answered by Dane 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Since that fits me in quite a way, it's pretty much when you feel like you're in the wrong body and don't belong to that gender or sex. It seems a lot more common for men to feel like their suppose to be women then vice versa. It seems to have something to do with how the brain is formed during birth and the part that makes the gender of the brain mostly male or female doesn't match the sex of the body. Thus, this causes a lot of problems, including stress and even wanting to end life.
2007-01-16 19:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by Ievianty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Trans (also Transgender): Those who transgress societal gender norms; often used as an umbrella term to mean those who defy rigid, bipolar gender constructions, and who express or present a breaking and/or blurring of cultural/stereotypical gender roles. This includes: androgynes, cross-dressers, gender-benders, intersexed individuals, shape-shifters, transvestites, and transsexuals.
2007-01-16 22:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by poodle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From reading the other answers I have just realised that many people are confusing transgender with transexual.
Whilst the term in the past has been coined in the 1970s by Virginia Prince in the USA, as a contrast with the term "transsexual," to refer to someone who does not desire surgical intervention to "change sex," and/or who believes that they fall "between" genders, not identifying fully, or strictly, as either male or female.
Transgender identity includes many overlapping sub-categories. These include transsexual; cross-dresser; transvestite; consciously androgynous people; genderqueer; people who live cross-gender; drag kings; and drag queens. The extent to which intersex people (those with genitalia or other physical sexual characteristics that are not strictly either male or female) are included in the transgender category is often debated. Not all intersex people disagree with the gender they were assigned at birth. Those who do may self-identify or be identified as transgender. Although some transgender people have had medical sex reassignment therapy, also called sex reassignment surgery, others have not, being quite happy living as they are. In other words, not all transgender people are transsexual, but all transsexual people are transgender. "Cisgender" is sometimes used to refer to non-transgender persons, and refers to those individuals who identify themselves with the gender associated with their birth sex.
The word trans means to cross from one to the other. And to change from one to the other. In the transgendered community, there are many people who do not want to transition (which means to change from one sex to another, rather either being a combination of both sexes or rather a third, fourth, five, etc sex and in some cases, getting rid of sex altogether).
Transsexualism is a condition in which a transsexual person self-identifies as a member of the gender opposite to the one assigned to them at birth.
Not all transgendered people want to transition. Some people who identify as non-gendered also identify as transgendered.
2007-01-16 19:39:20 · answer #4 · answered by Orditz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is when a good looking man dresses and looks more attractive than the straight women, hats off to you ladies(drag queens are beautiful and they know it).
it is more common with men, than women.
its like when a straight man says hey im a lesbian im just trapped in a mans body, my reply im a man trapped in a womans body
and hell yeah im loving it too! am i getting a sex change no, i love my body and the rest of the female population too.
to the whole transgendered community, ladies you are lovely,
flaunt it like god intended for you too.
strut your stuff.
2007-01-16 19:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by sharma 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Being of one sex biologically and feeling that of the opposite sex inside. Wanting to dress and possibly go as far as a sex change in some people.
2007-01-16 19:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
–adjective
1. appearing or attempting to be a member of the opposite sex, as a transsexual or habitual cross-dresser.
2. of or pertaining to a transgendered person or transgendered people: the transgender movement.
2007-01-16 19:06:31 · answer #7 · answered by silentjealousy77 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
transgendered means that you have gotten a sex change. transgender means that you have either both genders sex organs or neither. if you have niether, it is ok we wont laugh!
2007-01-16 19:07:29 · answer #8 · answered by cubbie_bears820 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
when someone feels they "should have been" the opposite sex. they feel like it was a mistake to be born with the body they have and many are now choosing to have sex change operations to correct that.
2007-01-16 19:07:25 · answer #9 · answered by Eowyn 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sown on or cut off.
2007-01-16 19:06:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋