I'll admit, slight variations in words often confuse me. Being a boring, simple heterosexual male, I don't generally deal with much sexual deviation. It seems there are several words that all start with Trans that get me very confused. I'm going to look them up now and see if we can get everything straightened out once and for all!
Tranny- Transvestite or transsexual.
Transvestite- Generally a male who cross-dresses as a female and often takes on female behavior.
Transsexual- A person who is predisposed to identify with the opposite sex, sometimes so strongly as to undergo surgery and hormone injections to effect a change of sex.
Trans-gender- Trans gender 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). "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, I hope that clears things up for y'all.
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