JeanetteLv2
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A transsexual person is one is who was born with the body of one gender (male or female) but their brain/mind is formed as that of the opposite gender. Since there is no curing the mind of this, the only cure is to change the body via permanent facial/body hair removal, hormones, and various surgeries to match the mind if not completely enough to at least live as the gender that person's mind was born as.
Crossdressers are those that merely derive pleasure usually sexual from dressing as the opposite sex. It's about the pleasure and enjoyment factor versus trying to correct being born in the wrong body.
The term 'shemale' is basically used as either a) an insulting reference towards all transsexuals who are male to female (transwomen); b) towards transwomen that choose to work in the sex industry either as prostitutes or porn stars.
Those born with mixed or ambigious genitalia are intersexuals. The term hermaphrodite is the more commonly used term by the public. But as I understand it that term may be insulting to some intersexual men or women. Unfortunately those born this way are often surgerically altered at birth without any consideration of what gender that person truly is but what doctors or parents think the child should be assigned. Not to mention the surgeries and hormones they are usually forced to undergo as kids and teens by parents and doctors to maintain that often incorrect assignment. So most are assigned and surgically altered wrongly and thus have to go through a lot of hell almost on pare with those born transsexuals to correct that.
Crossdressers are those that merely derive pleasure usually sexual from dressing as the opposite sex. It's about the pleasure and enjoyment factor versus trying to correct being born in the wrong body.
The term 'shemale' is basically used as either a) an insulting reference towards all transsexuals who are male to female (transwomen); b) towards transwomen that choose to work in the sex industry either as prostitutes or porn stars.
Those born with mixed or ambigious genitalia are intersexuals. The term hermaphrodite is the more commonly used term by the public. But as I understand it that term may be insulting to some intersexual men or women. Unfortunately those born this way are often surgerically altered at birth without any consideration of what gender that person truly is but what doctors or parents think the child should be assigned. Not to mention the surgeries and hormones they are usually forced to undergo as kids and teens by parents and doctors to maintain that often incorrect assignment. So most are assigned and surgically altered wrongly and thus have to go through a lot of hell almost on pare with those born transsexuals to correct that.
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