What are transgender people?

Answer 1

A transwoman is short for "transgender woman." That is a person who was assigned male at birth, but now outwardly identifies as a woman. Such a person may or may not have had surgery, hormones, etc. to change the physical sex.

A transwoman is not necessarily the same as a transsexual woman, since many women born with transsexualism refuse this label. They maintain they have/had transsexualism and are not transgendered, since the "trans" in "transwoman" is short for transgender. Persons with genuine transsexualism desire corrective surgery and complete assimilation into society as if they never had the condition, while most transgendered persons don't. Terms like "transwoman" and "T-girl" were created immediately after the TG takeover of the TS Community, since everyone was convinced the two separate communities could work together and help each other. However, the TS persons had Mainstream values and needs, while TG persons had mostly LGBT culture, values, and needs. Now most of the TS Community is reclaiming its Mainstream status and refuses to accept labels from TG and LGBT communities.

Answer 2

Transgender people are people who decided to switch genders, either from FtM, or MtF. FtM trans people usually take T, or testosterone shots, to boost horomones that they are beinning to develop as a new gende. So basically, transgenders are people who completely switched from one gender to another.

Answer 3

Transgender people are those whose gender or sex differs from what they were assigned at birth.

When a person is born they are assigned either male or female based on external genitalia - despite that sex determination in humans is far more complex than the idea of penis=male/vulva=female. Our culture then assigns a gender to that person based on their sex, if they are male they are assumed to be boys and if they are female they are assumed to be girls. Trans people are those who are a different sex or gender to what was assigned to them at birth by doctors and their parents/culture.

Answer 4

Transgender refers to someone whose gender and/or sex is different to that which they were assigned at birth. When born a doctor assigns you a sex based purely on external genitalia, your parents and community then raise you as the gender they believe should match with your sex, but sometimes as a person grows up they turn out to be a different sex or gender to that they were assigned.

Answer 5

Someone who is trying to be male and female, like a cross-dresser.

Answer 6

It mean someone who identify as a different gender than what they were assigned.

Answer 7

A person who was assigned female at birth and identifies as a man.