charged and convicted for robbery and murder. Only in prostitution are women more heavily involved. In addition, intimate partner violence is the same in same-sex couples compared to heterosexual couples.
TRANSGENDER ISSUES A transgender person is one whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex. Those who get medical assistance to make a physical transformation are said to be transsexual. The term transgender is sometimes used to refer to people who consider themselves bigender, gender fluid, or gender queer and is sometimes called the third gender, although we have already discussed that most transgender people do not feel that this is the case. Transgender issues are completely different from sexual orientation. The transgender person may be asexual or may be heterosexual, homosexual, or even bisexual. Some do not like to label their orientation at all. Transgender is different from being intersex, which is a medical term used to describe someone who has ambiguous genitalia. A person who is cisgender believes they have a gender identity that is the same as their assigned sex. Transvestitism is not the same thing as transgender and refers specifically to how one prefers to dress. The terms “trans man” and “trans woman” refers to the assignment the person desires. So, for a person who is a male transitioned to female, this would be called “trans woman” and for a person who is female transitioned to male, this would be called “trans male”. The words trans-masculine and trans-feminine are also increasingly used. As mentioned, a transsexual is a subset of being transgender. These are people who desire to have hormones and sex reassignment surgery. The word transsexual has more to do with one’s physical sex than transgender, which has more to do with one’s psychological sex. Some transgender people do not like the term “transsexual” because gender involves more than just sexuality. Each transgender person is different with regard to how they would like to be labeled so one should always ask about this when dealing with the individual person.
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