No Trans In The Military Says Trump

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Mat are we taking about transsexuals or transgender? there different

I don't know any more.

20+ years ago it used to be that transsexual described people who needed to transition and fully live their lives as the gender that they felt they were. Transvestites were cisgendered men and women who did drag and made themselves up to be a caricature of the opposite sex. Transgendered was an umbrella term for everyone in-between. Which was unfortunate because transsexuality was never about sexuality but gender identity and the term was coined by patriarchal psychiatrists who treated it all as a psychological impairment. They should have coined the term transgendered.

Now it seems transvestites no longer exist and everyone on anywhere on the spectrum is described as transgendered, including transsexuals. Which while makes sense in that it is a continuous spectrum and that the misnomer of being called transsexual is finally dying out, also ignores the fact that those traditionally termed transsexual have very different life experiences to those who merely have a tendency towards gender non-conformity. Trans-men and trans-women now seems to be short hand for FTM and MTF transsexuals.