Gender and sexuality are
very different things.
Gender: the mental state
of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural
differences rather than biological ones)
Sex: the biological
state of being male, female or intersex
Sexuality: a
person’s sexual orientation or preference.
*Gender and sexuality is on
a scale, there are more than two gender and sexualities.
In other words, gender is
who you ARE, sex is WHAT YOUR BODY IS and sexuality is who you are ATTRACTED TO.
So gender is mental and sex
is physical, therefore do not always match.
This blog is focused on transmen.
Transman: a person
who was assigned female at birth but identifies as male.
Transwoman: a person
who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female.
*I hope that this blog will
also be interesting and helpful to transwomen, however, as I am not a transwoman
and I cannot and will not speak on behalf of them or the issues they face.
Although I plan to have a few pieces about transwomen, written
by a transwoman herself.
The definition of trangender
and transsexual are also different.
Transgender: a person
who identifies as the opposite gender/sex to which they were assigned at birth.
Transsexual: a person
who has undergone any medical treatment to transition physically to the
opposite sex they were born with.
Simple, right?
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