difference between a transgender and a transsexual

[finultimo]

I need to explain in the simplest way possible to an older adult, the difference between a transgender and a transsexual, could you help me?

[GroobyKrissy]

I need to explain in the simplest way possible to an older adult, the difference between a transgender and a transsexual, could you help me?

TG = The Umbrella
TS = The person standing under it.

[Amber Littlefeather]

[finultimo]

means that a TS is a TG but a TG is not necessarily a TS? ok but that does not help me too thank you very much

[LilyRox]

A transgender person is a broad category of the 3rd sex. This can be a drag queen, crossdresser, transsexual, MtF(male to female), FtM(female to male), transvestite, etc.

A transsexual is a person (let's say male to female) that had any surgeries to become the opposite sex including, but not limited to: breast implants, sex reassignment, laser hair removal, hormone therapy, etc.

Defined purely by me

[GroobyKrissy]

means that a TS is a TG but a TG is not necessarily a TS? ok but that does not help me too thank you very much

Hmmm... you asked for simple and I thought that was the simplest explanation that you will actually read without me getting long and wordy. Let me try again.

Transgendered is a TERM.
Transsexual is a PERSON.

I think you can draw the conclusions from that...?

[danthepoetman]

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...

[Jericho]

About thirty five notes on a Saturday night!

Awww c'mon, someone had to!

[MrsKellyPierce]

Transgender is the umbrella term for transsexual, transvestite, crossdresser, gender queer, gender fluid, and drag queen...

Transsexual is someone who has the brain/thoughts of the opposite sex of what they were born. Typically resulting in hormones and surgeries to change their outside features to match what's going on upstairs.

[GroobySteven]

Typically resulting in hormones and surgeries

Typically resulting in hormones and/or surgeries