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ORIGINAL: Reikm

Alright.

I have noticed there is a lot of confusion on this site about the above terms, and honeslty I blame Collar Me for lumping TV with TG and TS.

Transgender: A person born feeling they are of the wrong gender.
Transsexual: A transgender who decides to start transition.
Pre OP Transsexual: A transsexual who has yet to do sexual reassignment surgery.
Post OP Transsexual: A transsexual who has had sexual reassignment surgery.
Non OP Transsexual: A transsexual who feels they are of the opposite sex, but has no interest in sexual reassignment surgery.
MTF (Male to Female) Transsexual: A Male who feels they are actually a female and is in transition.
FTM (Female to Male) Transsexual: A Female who feels they are actually a male and is in transition.
Transition: The name for the process in which a Transsexual changes from one gender to the other. Involves dressing full time as the gender, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and for some Sexual Reassignment Surgery.
HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy): A process of blocking the bodys natural hormones and supplementing them with the other genders hormones.
SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery): The final stage of transition except for Non OPs. Involves turning the current genitals into the other genders genitals.
Gender Identity: The gender the person most identify with.

Transvestite: A man or woman who still feels they are a man or woman but likes to cross dress in the other genders clothing and gender bend.

Important to note that MTFs can be lesbians, and FTMs can be gay, gender identity and sexual preference are not linked.

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ORIGINAL: Alecta
What is the correct term for someone who chooses to be in-between genders, and identify simultaneously as both male and female?

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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1

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ORIGINAL: Reikm

Alright.

I have noticed there is a lot of confusion on this site about the above terms, and honeslty I blame Collar Me for lumping TV with TG and TS.

Transgender: A person who identifies with a gender other than the one the person was coercively assigned at birth (CAAB).
Transsexual: A person who has had sexual reassignment surgery or is planning to have it and/or is taking hormone replacement therapy.
Pre OP Transsexual: A transsexual who has yet to do sexual reassignment surgery.
Post OP Transsexual: A transsexual who has had sexual reassignment surgery.
Non OP Transsexual: A trans* person who has decided against having or is unable to have sexual reassignment surgery.
MTF (Male to Female) Trans* person: A woman who was coercively assigned male at birth.
FTM (Female to Male) Trans* person: A man who was coercively assigned female at birth.
Transition: The name for the process in which a Trans* person changes from the gender CAAB to the preferred gender. May involve dressing full time as the gender, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and/or Sexual Reassignment Surgery.
HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy): A process of blocking the bodys natural hormones and supplementing them with the other genders hormones.
SRS (Sexual Reassignment Surgery): The final stage of transition except for Non OPs. Involves corrective surgery to make the external genitalia match the internal gender identity.
Gender Identity: The gender the person most identify with.

Transvestite: A cisgender man or woman who likes to cross dress in the other genders clothing.

Important to note that MTFs can be lesbians, and FTMs can be gay, gender identity and sexual preference are not linked.

I'm sorry, Reikm, but I believe you're wrong. Your definitions treat sex and gender as though they are interchangeable concepts. They aren't. I know you mean well, and this is a better list than people not having anything to refer to at all, but it needs some real work IMO.

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ORIGINAL: OttersSwim
HI!

I am a non-operative MtF Transsexual. I am non-op by choice. However, just because I choose not to change my bits does not in any way invalidate my internal sense of myself - which feels mostly female. I transverse the boundaries between both genders, presenting as male and female depending on the circumstance. I observe many traditional female traits - I shave, my toes are always painted, my hair is long, my eyebrows tweezed and my ears are both pierced. I wear many female clothes even when I am presenting as male.

My reasons for not fully transitioning have to do with my life to this point, my relationship which I deeply value...and frankly the fact that I am able to achieve "authenticity and self" exactly as I am.

It is really not hard to interact with someone expressing gender variance. Simply address them with the gender pronouns for which they are presenting. If you are not sure, politely ask what pronouns they would prefer.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

Reikm, a couple of thoughts for you:

1. You based your perception on people who messaged you. You're here in the forums now, and the collarchat forum folks tend to be different than the collarme folks. We chat and get to know others (including several TGs - you and Otter aren't the only ones here). A lot of the collarme people just sit behind a computer screen and never interact with others and may not be as informed as the collarchat people. In addition, the Denver community has several TGs in it, and the members of the community simply accept them. The best way to have people's perceptions changed isn't marches and protests - it's when you borrow a cup of sugar from a next-door TG.
2. You're TG. As such, your gender identity means a great deal to you. Not so much for 90+% of cisfolks. In the community here, it's not so much that we're accepting as much as it is that nobody really cares. Getting along with people and respecting boundaries is much more important.

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ORIGINAL: VaguelyCurious

Y'all might consider this a more clearly worded summary.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

Reikm, a couple of thoughts for you:

1. You based your perception on people who messaged you. You're here in the forums now, and the collarchat forum folks tend to be different than the collarme folks. We chat and get to know others (including several TGs - you and Otter aren't the only ones here). A lot of the collarme people just sit behind a computer screen and never interact with others and may not be as informed as the collarchat people. In addition, the Denver community has several TGs in it, and the members of the community simply accept them. The best way to have people's perceptions changed isn't marches and protests - it's when you borrow a cup of sugar from a next-door TG.
2. You're TG. As such, your gender identity means a great deal to you. Not so much for 90+% of cisfolks. In the community here, it's not so much that we're accepting as much as it is that nobody really cares. Getting along with people and respecting boundaries is much more important.

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
Ash, if you're born with both genders, then the term is intersexed. Shemale is considered offensive.

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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras

I thought being born of both genders was a hermaphrodite, which is reputed to be an extremely rare condition in humans, while the more commonly found intersexualism relates to people that are strictly of one biological sex (male or female gonads) but their development is complicated and may even develop as a member of the opposite sex instead.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

"Shemale" is an offensive term meaning a pre-op MtF. AFAIK, "intersexed" and "hermaphrodite" means the exact same thing.