What is the differences between trans-gender, transsexual, transvestite, cross-dresser...?

Question

If you know more terms connected to this topic, add them. Tell me as much as you can.

Answer 1

That's a very good question.

Transexual is a word that describes someone who feels they were born in the body of the wrong gender. The word applies even if that person never gets surgery/hormone treatments.

Transgender is a word that was meant to replace "transexual" because transexual gave people the impression that sexual behavior had something to do with it. It's more about gender identity, which is a separate issue from orientation.

The words "cross-dresser" and "transvestite" are often used interchangabley, and means a man who wears women's clothes. Some dress for a sexual thrill, some would dress like that all the time if they could. Many are straight, and are not transgender.

Answer 2

Technically, the crossdresser and transvestite are the same (trans--cross; vest, as in vestments, clothing).

Colloquially, cross dressers are heterosexuals that sometimes get their jollies dressing as the opposite sex. It often is a sometimes thing and usually for, um, gratification, if you get my drift. It is a fetish thing mostly. Colloquially, transvestites are homosexuals who wear the opposite dress to advertise their desired role for, um, conjugal pairing. It is a preening and mating behavioral thing.

The transgender/transexual thing is for those who want, or even feel a need, to be the opposite sex. These folk don't just want to portray, or even pretend, the other gender, they are driven to be it. Unfortunately, there are some who are so wrapped up in the transition that they prefer to stay on the fence, a sort of freakish middle ground. Yet there are those who indeed transition and live out lives more or less passably as the opposite gender to what their DNA would indicate. As with every transition, there are those starting, those in the middle, and those who have accomplished to some degree.

It is the morphing stage that we notice and build strong opinions on. I was a child once, I was an adolescent, and now I am an adult. I was most noticeable as an adolescent for all the normal but regretable reasons. I know some transfolk--and they don't want to be know for what they were but who they are. I know some crossdressers, they don't want to be known because it is their own private play. I know some transvestites, they want to be known, that is why they advertise, as in when they are in dress they want to be seen.

Answer 3

Well to answer you question on how Transvestite, Transgender, Transexual, Bisexual and last but not least Homosexual they are all kind of the same but not really. A transvestite doesn't always mean that whoever it is isn't going to stay dating the same sex (meaning if the transvestite was a man and he stayed with women) and Homosexual means same sex (Homo=same; put together with sex; same sex) The same thing can happen with transgender or transsexual men or women. Bisexual means the person enjoys being with BOTH sexes and again Homosexual means same sex. A homosexual wouldn't dare be with the opposite sex because they are ONLY attracted to their own sex. Metrosexual is a very well groomed person (yes that person can be either a boy or a girl). Hope it cleared up some of the confusion.

Answer 4

Transvestite (synonymous with Cross-Dresser): someone who dresses as the opposite sex. There are various reasons why someone does so- sometimes it is sexually arousing, and sometimes it simply just feels right. Some transvestites only do so in the privacy of their home, possibly shared with their family, and others are happy to go outside in this 'drag'. The defining characteristic is that transvestites, or cross-dressers, as they are known, do not want to be the sex that they sometimes dress as- they are happy in their bodies, but sometimes like to wear those clothes.

Transgendered: individuals who feel that they are not one of the two dichotomous genders (male or female). They may feel they are a mixture of male and female, neither, or a 'third gender' that is totally different. Transgenders often include masculine women, feminine men, and so on, although there are some people who look 'normal' (whatever that means), but can still identify as transgender in their minds. They, like transvestites, are completely happy in their bodies- they do not want to change them at all, just acknolwedge that they aren't entirely men or women in the way we currently define men and women.

Not to be confused with:

Transsexual: a person who has gender dysphoria (feels they have been born in the wrong body) and takes hormones and undergoes surgery to change their sex. Sometimes transgendered people may later become transsexuals, and transsexuals may, after surgery, be transgender (i.e. if a man transitioned to a woman, she may be happier as a woman, but still know that she's not quite right as a female, either- look up Kate Bornstein for a good example of this). Some transsexuals never do get on hormones or have surgery, and they are called non-operative, and while they may seem no different than transgenders, they are, because they feel trapped in the wrong body, but choose not to rectify it for any number of reasons, often including the high cost.

Hermaphrodite: a somewhat antiquated term for what we now call 'intersexuals', somebody who is born with any number of mixes of sex. These can include chromosomal mixtures not typically seen in men and women (instead of XX or XY, there are some X's, XXY, etc.), in hormones (some people have no indication that they are intersexed but for a lack of or insensitivity to certain hormones), or in secondary sex characteristics like breasts and genitals (some people have a mixture of genitals, with testicles and a clitoris, no penis, a vagina and undescended testicles, etc., etc.), voice, body hair, skin texture, bone structure, fat distribution, height, etc.. There are MANY different types of intersexuality, and not just a 'both girl and boy parts' kind.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

transsexual is someone who permanently changes gender

transvestite is a synonym to crossdresser. they're the same. it's someone who temporarily changes gender with clothing and makeup

transgender includes: transsexual, crossdresser, drag queen, shemale, and gender queer

your next question will be what's drag queen, shemale, and gender queer

drag queen is a female impersonating performer

shemale is a transsexual porn star (almost always pre-op)

gender queer is anyone who doesn't fall into the other categories. generally those who are androgynous or consider themselves a 3rd gender apart from male and female

Answer 6

Not much different.
These are name of different kind of scraps from the human making factories. What ever you call - a scrap is always a scrap unless you melt and remould it.