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| | '''Transsexual''' is a term describing [[transgender]] people who want to [[transition]], are transitioning, or have transitioned from one [[binary gender]] to the other. It used to be used a lot, but now "transgender" has taken over as the preferred term by most people, even people who could also be considered transsexual, because "transsexual" is less inclusive and may be seen as confusing [[gender identity]] with [[sexuality]] due to its similarity with terms like "heterosexual" and "bisexual". |
| A [[transsexual]] (or [[transexual]]) person is a specific kind of [[transgender]] person: one who takes a physical [[transition]], especially [[surgery]]. [[Pronouns#They|They]] do this order to relieve the dissonance between how they feel about how their body is and should be ([[gender dysphoria]]) and make their body match how they see themself (their [[gender identity]]). The words [[transsexuality]] and transsexual were created by doctors and psychologists to describe such people, who first thought of it as something medically wrong (pathological). Because of this, some transgender people who could call themselves transsexual prefer not to be called that, and only called transgender, because they don't want their identity to be thought of as pathological. There are many kinds of transsexual people:
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| * Transsexual women ([[transgender women]]), who were [[AMAB|assigned a male gender at birth]] (sometimes also [[intersex]]), and identify as [[female]], therefore they are women. Depending on the individual's wants and needs, their physical transition may include [[hormone therapy]] that gives them a higher estrogen balance, which creates a puberty in which they usually develop breasts. They may seek a surgery to change their genitals into a vagina ([[vaginoplasty]]).
| | "Transexual" can be a misspelling of "transsexual" or a term in its own right. Historically, "transsexual" was seen as pathologising by some trans people because it was created by oft-[[transphobia|transphobic]] medical professionals, so parts of the trans community created the term "transexual" as an alternative. It has the same meaning, but it de-emphasises the "-sexual" ending since it can break down into "trans" and "exual", and it was created by and for trans people so it was not seen as transphobic. However, this usage has largely fallen by the wayside, and in English "transsexual" is considered the only correct spelling. |
| * Transsexual men ([[transgender men]]), who were [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]] (sometimes also intersex), and identify as [[male]], therefore they are men. Depending on the individual's wants and needs, their physical transition may include [[hormone therapy]] that gives them a higher testosterone balance, which creates a puberty in which they usually grow hair on their faces and bodies. They may seek a surgery to take away their breasts ([[mastectomy]]), and they have several options for surgery to change their genitals.
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| * Many people with [[nonbinary]] gender identities can or do call themselves transsexual, and seek a physical transition. A nonbinary person could have been assigned female or male at birth. They also could have been born intersex. The goal of a transsexual nonbinary person's transition depends on that individual's unique personal wants and needs. It might make their body more like what most people would think of as [[androgynous]], having qualities of both female and male, or neither female nor male, or conventionally female, or conventionally male, or like that of someone born with one kind or another of a natural intersex condition, or something else.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Identities]]
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| *[[Sex]]
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| ==External links==
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| *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexual Wikipedia entry: Transsexual]
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| [[Category:Identities]] | | [[Category:Identities]] |
