Transexuals

[Rev. Rye]

From what I understand, sex is what you actually are, and gender (made up term) is what you think you are.

Are there any terms that aren't made up? Outside of the ones that are just onomotopaeiae?
Here's a simple explanation of the difference between sex and gender:

So, for example, if you're a man but for some reason you think you're a woman, then your sex is (obviously) male, but your "gender" is woman (not female?). It's all very confusing. They say that your sex is assigned at birth but this is of course nonsense. Your sex is observed.

Not always. Even biological sex is a lot less cut-and-dried than the simple binary. Case in point, Eden Atwood has a condition where she was born as XY, with testes and testosterone coursing through her veins, but a genetic abnormality made her immune to testosterone. It's called Complete Androgen Insensitivity, and it occurs somewhere between once in every 20,000 births, and once in every 100,000 births.



This is part of a genetic phoenomenon called intersexuality, and CAIS is just one of many ways it comes about.

I'm not sure why these individuals insist on using toilets that correspond to their "gender" rather than to their sex. It would be a lot better for everyone if they simply used the one that is appropriate to them. 

IN fairness, I can understand your hesitation. I wouldn't want to imagine someone like this in the ladies' room.

Oh, wait, that's actually a trans man named Michael C. Hughes in the ladies' room he "apparently" belongs in due to being biologically female.

I've noticed that these days you never hear about transvestites. Where did they go? What happened to them? Same with tomboys.

The former is an antiquated term for cross-dressing, and, frankly, there's probably still hundreds of tomboys for every trans-man, because, frankly, having interests more common among the opposite gender is a different thing than considering yourself a member of that same opposite gender.