Crossdresser or transsexual or something in-between? Is there more to all this than the clothes?
For some, transsexuality is at best a puzzling phenomenon, a curious affliction that some people suffer from. For others, it’s an irresistible force that irreversibly changes your life and that of those you love. For most who are personally acquainted with transsexuality, it’s somewhere in between.
What follow are not definitive answers. Many may seem vague, almost evasive. The point, as much as anything, is to get you to think about these questions too.
So – here are a few more questions we get asked – and some you may want to think about if you see yourself in this.
While the two words are obviously related, they carry somewhat different meanings. “Transgendered” implies a process that one went through, such as “married”, “circumcised” or “born again”. “Transgender” implies an inherent attribute, like “male”, “female”, “short” or “tall”. Most transgender folks think of themselves as always having been what they…