what is the digerence between a transvestite and a transgender?

Question

is one a boy at birth and one a girl at birth

Answer 1

No.......a transvestite or crossdresser is someone who plays dress up for sexual kicks, it is a sexual fetish. A transgender is supposed to mean someone who lives part or full time as the opposite gender while retaining the parts of the original sex. It can be from a progression of the crossdresser fetish or due to actual gender mismatch. A transsexual is someone who is driven to change their body to match their internal sense of being male or female. Transsexuals always have this drive and act on it to the best of their ability. Transsexuals are NOT transgenders or transgendered because the very word does not apply to them. They do not trans, or cross/change gender (sense of self whether you are male or female) because part of being a transsexual is that your gender is as fixed as a non-trans person's, it's just at odds with the body.

Answer 2

A transvestite wants to dress in the clothing of his or her opposite sex. A transgendered person feels that inwardly, he or she is really the opposite sex from the body he or she now has. A transgendered person or more appropriately, a pre-transgendered person might very well make moves towards a sex change operation; a transvestite usually does not unless there are also transgender issues going on as well.

Answer 3

A transvestite is somebody who cross-dresses. The term "transvestite" is used as a synonym for the term "cross-dresser", although it has been stated that "cross-dresser" is the preferred term.The term "transvestite" and the associated term "transvestism" are conceptually different from the term "fetishistic transvestism" , as "transvestic fetishist" describes those who intermittently use clothing of the opposite gender for fetishistic purposes,[and "transvestite" does not. In medical terms
transgender people who wanted to live cross-gender without sex reassignment surgery.it is also popular as a means of uniting all those whose gender identity did not mesh with their gender assigned at birth.

Answer 4

In defining an absolute difference one confines people to boxes, it creates margins and expectations.

Often, these terms are used in that a transvestite wears clothing of a gender not typically approved for what the dominant culture feels their gender should wear.

Transgender is often used to refer to one's gender dynamic, their identity as one gender or another that is generally not typical for the dominant culture's "norms" based on genitals at birth. This does not mean the person gets surgery or wants surgery.

I once saw a page of 300 different gender variant identities.

Absolute boxes really are not big enough for the whole of human identity expression.

To fill in the gaps in my sleep reduced and influenced answer, check Cathryn's answer. I was very impressed.
Nod to Cathryn.

Answer 5

A transvestite is someone who wears clothes normally attributed to the opposite sex. Many men are transvestites privately. Most transvestites are not homosexual although most drag queens, a subset of transvestites, are.

A transgender person is one who thinks they have the wrong body for their sex. They are a woman trapped in a man's body or a man trapped in a woman's body. Some transgender people have sex-change operations to make their bodies more like how they see it. The sexuality of transgender people is debatable. If you are a woman trapped in a man's body, if you have sex with a man, to you you are having heterosexual sex but to the world it appears homosexual. If you have sex with a woman, to the world it is heterosexual sex but to you it is lesbian sex. Interesting.

Answer 6

a transvestite dresses in womens clothes at times , but lives as a man . a male to female transexual usually lives as a female at all times , tho most still have their male sexual organs .

Answer 7

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