difference between a transgender and a transsexual

[GroobyKrissy]

Typically resulting in hormones and/or surgeries

I knew I liked you for some reason.

[finultimo]

thank you very much. have all been very patient, I thank you indeed

[GroobyKrissy]

I don't mean to get over the ladies heads, here. They're all right anyways and Krissy is presenting things in her usually bright, fun and original way. I don't want either to talk as if I knew; the ladies will correct me if I'm wrong. I would think that "transgender", Finultimo, refers to every one who's crossing over from one gender to another: "trans", across, and "gender" which speaks by itself. A transsexual is someone who has a condition which I believe is biological, by which they are born with a sexual genotype (the famous xx or xy chromosome), and therefore in a body, which doesn't match the deep, profound, sexual identity. There's a spot in the brain, the sexualy dimorphic brain, which is for instance, giving a true female identity to someone, but her body has a xy sexual genotype, which makes that body phenotypically (its exterior, its appearance) male.
Therefore, indeed, a transsexual is a transgender, but a transgender is not necessarily a transsexual...
Or if you will, transgender is a general word, including a lot of cases, and transsexual is a specific condition...

Personally, I think anyone who references Italian is always right. So, you get a pass from me.

Oh wait...

[LilyRox]

Typically resulting in hormones and/or surgeries

Yes. There are many girl's that have only had hormone therapy to advance towards the opposite sex. They would be known as transsexuals, but could also be called transgender as a very broad term.

[MrsKellyPierce]

Many girls can't do hormones for health reasons..

So keep in mind just cause a girl isn't on hormones doesn't make her less of a female..

Some just do the surgery route..like Jesse Flores

[LilyRox]

Many girls can't do hormones for health reasons..

So keep in mind just cause a girl isn't on hormones doesn't make her less of a female..

Some just do the surgery route..like Jesse Flores

Yeah, I think I'm going to start hormones soon. I thought about not taking hormones at all, but I don't know. I talked to Bob from Bob's Tgirl's and he said it just never works out right when you get breast surgery without some type of foundation. I would have like beach balls lol.

[MrsKellyPierce]

Yeah, I think I'm going to start hormones soon. I thought about not taking hormones at all, but I don't know. I talked to Bob from Bob's Tgirl's and he said it just never works out right when you get breast surgery without some type of foundation. I would have like beach balls lol.

That is typically true, but Jesse never took hormones and she has soft boobs

Sometimes even when you take hormones you don't get much breast growth

A lot of girls just go over the muscle in that case ie Bailey Jay and others

[robertlouis]

Yeah, I think I'm going to start hormones soon. I thought about not taking hormones at all, but I don't know. I talked to Bob from Bob's Tgirl's and he said it just never works out right when you get breast surgery without some type of foundation. I would have like beach balls lol.

Coloured ones?

That would be soooooo cool......

[broncofan]

My understanding is that one is transsexual when there is a dissonance between biological sex and gender identification. The male genotype xy does not always result in a phenotype that is entirely male. Doctors often look at hormone levels, gonads, and secondary sex characteristics which vary a great deal among those with the male genotype. When genotype and phenotype do not match up one is intersex (there are actually a number of ways one can be intersex). But of course, not all transsexuals are intersex. Some but not all who are intersex are transsexuals.

Gender identification would refer to the set of psychological and mental characteristics that we associate with either male or female identity. The reason I bring up the intersex is that they demonstrate that for some biological sex is more fluid than we usually think. However, for society, male and female are two poles on opposite sides of a spectrum, each with their own set of correlated traits.

[LilyRox]

That is typically true, but Jesse never took hormones and she has soft boobs

Sometimes even when you take hormones you don't get much breast growth

A lot of girls just go over the muscle in that case ie Bailey Jay and others

Hmm yeah. I thought about both ways I really don't know. I don't think I have to have hormones.