Who are transgenders. Are they same as eunuchs?

Question

From the answers received so far, it seems that no body is born with ambiguous sexual physical features.What I thought was that eunuchs are probably born ambiguously sexed. For example,an eunuch could be someone who is born with a male organ but later develops secondary female sexual charactersitics e.g. breasts.

On the other hand, I thought transgenders(or transexuals) to be those who get their sexulaity aletered artificially,probably through surgery or hormonal intervention. An example could be shemales.

Conclusion : No body is born bisexual ,in terms of physical sexual charecteristics ( sex organs).

Please clarify this. I'm still confused

From the answers received so far, it seems that no body is born with ambiguous sexual physical features.What I thought was that eunuchs are probably born ambiguously sexed. For example,an eunuch could be someone who is born with a male organ but later develops secondary female sexual charactersitics e.g. breasts.

On the other hand, I thought transgenders(or transexuals) to be those who get their sexulaity altered artificially,probably through surgery or hormonal intervention. An example could be shemales.

Conclusion : No body is born bisexual ,in terms of physical sexual charecteristics ( sex organs).

Please clarify this. I'm still confused

Answer 1

Broadly speaking, transgender people are individuals whose gender expression and/or gender identity differs from conventional expectations based on the physical sex they were born into. The word transgender is an umbrella term which is often used to describe a wide range of identities and experiences, including: FTMs, MTFs, cross-dressers, drag queens, drag kings, gender queers, and many more.

A eunuch is a castrated human male. The castration can be only of the testes, or also include the penis, known as a penectomy (often with a tube inserted to keep the urethra open, called a urethral rerouting). The practice was established before 700 BC and accounts of eunuchs are known throughout history.

Answer 2

People born with both sexual organs are hermaphrodites and as I recall from the last time I read anything about them have been properly recorded and confirmed about 150 cases since they started to keep records so there are probably more that never come to the notice of the medical world
Eunuchs of course are men who have had their testicles removed and sometimes their penises as well. This can have all sorts of different effects including growing breasts but everyone if different.
The problems when trying to classify these cases is that a person can be anything from 100% female to 99% male and this can vary according to the amount of testosterone the foetus receives in the womb and how well it processes the testosterone is does receive. So we are all different and some people have male bodies but female brains and are therefore transgenders

Answer 3

Transgenders, as has already been described, are individuals who feel they were born with the wrong sex, or who feel that the sex descriptor (i.e. male/female) does not correctly describe who they are.

Your question about whether transgendered people are eunuchs is an interesting one, because in some cultures (namely Indian from India, and even in the Native American tradition (two-spirited people, sometimes mistakenly called berdaches [a perjorative term]) do not engage in sex and have ritualistic and even shamanistic powers. In the Indian tradition, these individuals are called "hijras," considered neither male nor female, and they play particularly important functions at the birth of a child (blessing and singing) as well as at weddings. These individuals are eunuchs in the physiological sense as well: they have had part of their genitalia anatomy removed. The physiological sense is not true, however, of the Native American groups--specifically considered among the Alyha, part of the Mojave peoples.

In the American culture, however, transgendered people are not equated with eunuchs, generally, and lead healthy sexual lives with the partner of their choosing.

Hermaphrodites, ARE born with both sexual genitalia, but one is usually much smaller.....but then again, this group is not a priori, considered automatically to fit into the "eunuch" category either.

Answer 4

not exactly...a eunuch is a man who has been castrated (penis or testicles or both removed). 'transgendered' basically doesn't have any real meaning, it's kind of a word that people use because they think 'transsexual' and 'transvestite' offend people (just get them the right way round. in its broadest sense, a boy who wears make up would be transgendered, because that's doing things usually associated with girls. but i guess you could argue that eunuchs are transgendered (unless it was like an accident or something) because they are rejecting a part of themselves related to masculinity. so~...eunuchs could be transgendered, but it's not the same thing.

~but i think you are talking about intersexuals, when you say born with ambiguous genitals. basically, if your sex organs (primary or secondary) or your chromosomes don't mark you as exactly male or female. so if your chromosomes say xxy, or if you are born "with a male organ but later develops secondary female sexual charactersitics e.g. breasts" (it does happen rarely, the baby is usually reassigned as female at birth, because her chromosomes would be xx), then you are intersexed. but there are so many different ways you can be intersexed, but it just basically means that you phenotype or karyotype isn't exactly male or female. a eunuch is a castrated male, transgendered is doing things which would disassociate you with your birth sex (even if that puts you in the middle). sorry if that was unclear

Answer 5

No, eunuchs just have their testicle removed.

Transgendered can be any of several type of people.

Transsexual - Male to femal or Female to male; someone with the mind of one gender in the body of another who corrects the error medically

Shemale - Male who takes hormones and may have feminization urgery but who il keep thei genitalia

Transvestite - Male or female who enjoy wearing the clothes of the other gender

Drag Queen/Drag King - someone who keeps their gender the same but enjoy dressing up in the others clothes (many times exaggerated) usually for show )many but not all are gay)

There is a spectrum of individuals and everyone is different but these are some major classifications

Answer 6

I'm a crossdresser or transvestite, one and same thing. I am a man who loves to dress as a woman. A crossdresser is someone who tends to dress from time to time for fun and sexual pleasure. A transvestite, although translates directly into cross clothes, or crossdresser, is more inclined to want to dress as the other sex on a more regular basis. But essentially they are the same thing.

As for all the other categories I think they have been explained simply enough by others above for you to understand. I just wanted to show you what a transvestite looks like when dressed, in the case of male to female dressing. It works the other way as well, only someone else will have to demo it for you

Answer 7

No, they're not the same.

A transgender person is a person, male or female, who dresses, behaves, or presents themselves in a way different to their gender norm.

A transsexual person is a person, male or female, born with Benjamin's syndrome, a congenital neurological intersex condition.

A eunuch is a man who has been castrated.

Answer 8

technically a eunuch is a person who has had their sexual organs removed through surgery or accident. so all post op transgenders are by definition eunuchs and not the opposite sex that they dress up as.

Answer 9

a eunuch has had their testicles removed at a young age so do not release testosterone to masculinise them at puberty

it was a common practice in victorian times as they could sing better and higher notes and perform on stage etc.

a transgender is someone who has a sex change later in life but they are mentally the opposite gender. some people are born gender ambiguous due to problems in pregnancy so their sex organs appear like the other gender so they choose to have a sex change to make them "normal"...or the decision is made for them in childhood and they are converted to avoid mental problems later.

Answer 10

NO! Transgenders are people who feel they were born the wrong sex. Eunuchs have no sex.