WHO ARE TRANSGENDERED PERSONS?

Not long ago, there was an attempt to reduce it all to a new binary system: transvestites and transsexuals. Now there is a continuum of variation, including cross-dressers, intersexuals, some female impersonators, some drag queens, some drag kings, transsexuals (including pre-op, post-op, and non-op), bigenderists, dual-genderists, and some for which no category yet exists. Many terms are used, such male-to-female (MtF), female-to-male (FtM), transman (FtM), transwoman (MtF) transsexual woman (MtF), genetic woman (female), and genetic man (male).

Intersexuals include many ambiguously-sexed persons, as well as naturally-occurring (X-Y) women and (X-X) men.

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