Cross-dressers
The first type of transgender is are cross-dressers. Cross-dressers refer to who wear clothing and accessories typically opposite with their gender or in the simple words their appearance opposite with their gender. As example, men wear women clothing and women wear men clothing. The cross-dresser term is preferred to the term transvestite. Cross-dressing may be just happen in the particular situation, for specific occasions, or in all aspect of cross-dresser person. Some people cross-dresser primarily for performance and usually we call this groups as drag queens, drag kings, male and female impersonators. On the other hand, for other cross-dressing is a private activity. Usually, cross-dressers people just questions their role or gender expression such as, how they are supposed to appear in society or to act but they not questions about their gender identity. Beside that, these groups don't want to live as the opposite gender or in the other words impossible for them to change their gender. As example, male cross-dressers still live as male and comfortable being male forever. In general, majority of cross-dressers are heterosexual.
Intersexual@'Khunsa'
Second type of transgender is a intersexual. Intersexuals refer to people who are born with of both male and female sex characteristics. In the same way, we also identify these people as 'khunsa'. Intersexuals happen because these people may have some of the sex or reproductive organ of both sexes. Discrepancies between chromosome, gonadol or hormone sex also can cause anybody be intersexuals person. Intersexuals people often do surgery altered at birth or at puberty. In many cases, usually a physician always decides what sex the child will be based on the number of variables, including appearance of external genitalia, chromosome and potential fertility beside the other factors. Some intersexuals feel angry because they do not given entitle to choice and determining their own gender. However, they feel comfortable with the sex assigned to them, but not satisfied because they were not given choice about what was being done. On the other hand, some intersexuals feel that the physician choice the wrong gender for them. Consequence from this situation, they never felt that the gender assigned to them, or they are really in the opposite gender. For example, an intersexual who was labelled as male at birth may grow up feeling and believing that he was a girl, though raised as a boy. Because of that, some intersexuals want to change their gender because they want the gender same with they feeling. So, they change they gender through undergo hormone or surgical treatment. However, many intersexuals are comfortable with the gender assigned to them, without undergo gender identity conflicts.
post by: Azia Diana(A127518)
Transsexuals also one types of transgender. They are have conflict between their physical self and their sense of identity. Besides that, their do surgery to transform their body so that suitable with their identity. This surgery includes taking hormone and undergoing sex reassignment surgery (SRS) to solve their conflict in themself. Transsexuals have 2 subsets namely transsexual woman a biological male with a female identity and Transsexual man a biological female with a male identity. Transsexual live with their gender or choose other for suitable with their physical. If want do desire sex reassignment, transsexuals will refer to Gender Identity Clinic for see physicians and mental health professional. The purpose for assess level a Gender Identity Disorder and to able or not live with in the gender their identity. On the other hand, if transsexuals take the decision to do hormone therapy or surgery, their must take risks because their physical will changes. In this case, not all transsexuals want to do surgery.
post by: Payaliza (A127340)
The last types of transgender is a transgenderists. Transgenderists refer to individual who has a gender identity but does not match with their assigned sex or identity. The biological sex of transgenderists usually be a source of great distress to them. So, that's why in generally transgenderists are not comfortable with their bodies and the physical characteristics that do not fit with their identity. Transgenderists people also can identify as heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, or gay. However, heterosexual transgenderists often assumeed to be same-sex oriented because others do not see, or believe their gender identity. As example, a transgenderists men who identify as gay, may be see the other as a heterosexual woman. In generally, most transgenderists have an intense desire for consistency between their gender identity, their physical self and their gender role. Transgenderists may be have same meaning with transsexual but still have different with these two type. Transgenderists different with transsexual because usually transgenderists do not change their sex or gender identity but most transsexual do surgery to change their gender or sex identity. In the same way, transgenderists person not do surgery because they more likely to find acceptance dressing as male and more to exhibiting traditional masculine characteristics in their self.
post by: Azia Diana(A127518)
Base on website source ,there are five types of transgendered individuals. The types is transgendered, transsexual, transvestite, two spirited and intersex or hermaphrodite. (http://www.counsel.ufl.edu/)
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