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HUMAN SEXUALITY: DIVERSITY IN GENDER
Most people deal with their gender by accepting the social expectations associated with their biological gender. Others deal with their gender in less common ways. Here are some examples of gender diversity.
Cross-Dressers
Many people enjoy experimenting with their gender roles. People of one gender may like to occasionally wear various articles of clothing identified with the other gender simply to mock or defy society’s rules of what is considered “normal.” For others, cross-dressing can turn into a career. Many cross-dressers become professional entertainers. Men who cross-dress are commonly referred to as female impersonators or drag queens. Women who cross-dress are called male impersonators or drag kings.
Transvestites
Some people dress in the clothes of the other gender because it gives them sexual pleasure. Such people are usually referred to as transvestites.
Sometimes they cross-dress publicly, sometimes only in private. For example, a transvestite man may enjoy wearing women’s panties and stockings under his business suit. Many transvestites are heterosexuals who have no interest whatsoever in sexual encounters with people of the same gender.
Transgender
Some people dress in the clothing of the gender other than their biological one because they enjoy being treated as someone of the other gender. This is not done for sexual thrill. These people consider themselves transgender. Transgender people typically have two different identities, and even two names for themselves—one female and one male. For them, cross-dressing is like acting, playing a role, trying to see what it’s like to walk in a woman’s, or a man’s, shoes. How often a transgender person plays this role depends on the individual. Many transgender people are also heterosexual and have no desire to actually change their biological anatomy.
Transsexual
A transsexual is someone who fully identifies with the gender other than her or his biological one. Most transsexual people remember feeling, from a very early age, that they have been trapped inside the wrong body. Oftentimes transsexual people are unhappy with their female or male anatomy Most like to live full-time as the other gender. Many use hormone therapy and surgery to change their sexual anatomy so it matches their gender identity.
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