From Merriam-Webster's Short List of Gender and Identity Terms |
The terms 'transgendered' and 'transexual/transsexual' are dated terms that have been replaced with "Transgender". The term
'transgender' describes:
someone whose gender identity is different from the sex the person had or were identified as having at birth.
(A) Often, transgender means specifically that the person's gender identity---their internal sense of their gender---is opposite
the sex they had or were identified as having at birth.
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D
someone who doesn't experience sexual desire or attraction; the person may experience romantic feelings.
someone whose sexual orientation is not straight.
someone born with intersexuality, a condition in which someone has both male and female gonadal tissue, or has the
gonads of one sex and external genitalia that is either ambiguous or is of the other sex.
