What does transsexual mean?
Transsexuals are persons who identify with the another sex or
gender such that they may get hormones and sometimes surgery, to look and feel more
like the another sex. Not everyone who identifies differently
than the sex they were assigned at birth wishes to undergo a
transition.
Not everyone who wishes to undergo a gender
transition has access to such resources. Individual trans
people vary in if or how they want to transition.
Also, just
like non-trans people, a trans person can be any sexual
orientation. They may be straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual ,
etc -- gender identity is neither the same as, nor is it
necessarily related to, sexual orientation.
Biologic females who transition to live as men are also called
transgendered or trans men or FTM (female to male). Biologic
males who live as women are called transgendered (or trans)
women or MTF (male to female).
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