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I’m going to give you several terms and additional information, just to make things very clear:
Transvestite: someone who dresses in clothing of the opposite sex only some of the time, either because they simply like it or because it turns them on sexually. The term is somewhat outdated; we usually say "cross-dresser" now.
Bonus!: A cross-dresser is different from a drag queen/kings. Drag queens and queens dress in clothing of the opposite sex, but do it for performances; their costumes and demeanor are generally very flamboyant and over-the-top, whereas cross-dressers tend to wear more "normal" clothing.
Transgender: anybody who does not fit into the gender binary of male and female and does not behave according to gender norms, including some masculine women, feminine men, cross-dressers, and those who identify as both genders, neither gender, somewhere in-between, as two-spirits, genderqueer, etc., etc.. It’s a really big, broad term, that is often used to refer to anybody who is not a masculine cisgender man or feminine cisgender woman. But it’s a label best left for people to use about themselves; one feminine man may consider himself transgender, whereas another may not. It’s all very personal.
Bonus!: Cisgender means someone who was born with their body matching their gender identity. In other words, if you were born in a female body and feel you are female, you are cisgender. It’s used as an opposite term for transgender or transsexual, in order to make cisgender people aware of the privilege they have in not having gender identity issues.
Transsexual: someone whose body does not match the gender with which they identify. They usually- but not always!- undergo surgery and take hormones in order to make the two match.
If you have a female gender identity but were born male-bodied, you are a transwoman. If you have a male gender identity but were born female-bodied, you are a transman. If you are a transwoman who likes women, you are a lesbian transwoman. If you are a transwoman who likes men, you are a straight transwoman. If you are a transman who likes men, you are a gay transman. If you are a transman who likes women, you are a straight transman.
Hope that’s helped.
EDIT: Just wanted to make sure to reiterate that surgical status has nothing to do with whether you’re transsexual or not. It’s not "transgender" before surgery and "transsexual" after- they are two different things. We use prefixes like "pre-op", "post-op", and "non-op" to refer to a transsexual individual’s surgical status.
Transsexuals are people born in the wrong body (You probably know this).
i.e. a biological man who is psychologically a woman and a biological woman who is psychologically a man.
Although many people think so, the term doesn’t just apply to transsexuals who have completed surgery!!!
Transgender is a umbrella term for:
genderqueer
bi-gender
transsexual
genderf*ck
Drag Queens
Drag Kings
and etc.
And transvestite is actually a somewhat offensive term for cross-dressers.
Most crossdressers are heterosexual.
Transvestites are people who DRESS as the opposite gender.
Transgendered persons identify as the opposite gender to the one which they may appear to be biologically.
Transexuals are similar to transgendered persons except that I hear the term more commonly applied to people who’ve completed gender reassignment surgery, but I don’t know if that is official or just in my experience.
It’s just a matter of degree and drama.
I’m glad you actually took the time to ask the question. Most people just lump us together without a thought. I’m transexual and I hate it when people mix it up with crossdressers. The reasons why we do it is different. Transexuals feel like they are women so we don’t have to wear high heels etc. the point is being accepted for who we are. Some might like dressing really girly becase they feel like they should be able to or maybe they just like the style.. We take hormones and get surgeries and so on. Crossdressers do it mostly for a sexual thrill usually, but everyone is different. Most wouldn’t want to become women, they like being men. I like crossdressers because they are also fighting the gender norms but I don’t like to be seen as a guy in womens clothes, I’m a woman in womens clothes.
A transsexual is someone whos sex and gender doesn’t match.
Transgender is an umbrella term including cross dressers, gender queers, drag kings…
Transvestite is a derogatory term for a cross dresser.
Thank you for asking this.
Gwennie gave a great answer.
I would also like to add that it’s offensive to call transsexual people crossdressers, or to call crossdressers transsexual people, because we are not the same.