What does it mean to be transgendered?

A transgendered person is someone who is dealing with gender issues in their life. This is completely different from sexual orientation issues. A person can have gender issues or can have different sexuality or both. There really are no acceptable slang terms - the slang is usually reserved for being insulting. here are some but by no means all gender issues - and Transgender is all BUT Transsexual

Cross Dressing - someone who likes to wear the clothes of the opposite sex in order to feel more comfortable

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Cross-dressin...

Transvestite - Someone who wears the clothes of the opposite sex in a sexual context or in a public context and tries to come across completely as the person of the opposite gender, but just temporarily

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Transvestite

Drag Queen/King - Someone who dresses as the opposite sex for the purpose of performing in a show

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Drag_queen

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Drag_king

Shemale - A person, born male who has cosmetic surgery, possibly hormones and has implants to give as much of the appearance of a female, but keeps their genitalia functional and is usually in pornographic content

Transsexual - describes a person, male or female, who was born with a condition Gender Identity Disorder (GID) which means that their gender identity, which is determined in the hypothalamus of the brain, does not match their physical anatomy. Transsexual people require medical intervention, including hormone therapy and genital surgery, to correct this mismatch and lead normal lives, but transsexualism is neither defined by, nor restricted to, that intervention

http://www.t-vox.org/index.php?title=Transsexual

Transgender (pronounced /trænzˈdʒɛndər/) is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles.

Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" (self-identification as woman, man, neither or both) not matching one's "assigned sex" (identification by others as male, female or intersex based on physical/genetic sex).[1] "Transgender" does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them

Well first off, I'm guessing "MuscleDude" has gender identity issues....

As for your question, transgendered means that a person identifies their self as the opposite sex from that which they were born. ie...a Man who feels that he should have been born a woman and strives to live out that alternate identity.

The guy above me PROBABLY used Wikipedia as his source for his answer.

Wow. I attempted to make fun of the first guy but ended up looking like a moron because a second guy jumped in before with a legitimate answer from Wikipedia. wow.

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