07-01-2014, 05:59 AM
Patti, my understanding is that since around 1990 most use the word "transgender" as an all encompassing umbrella term for any gender-variant condition, including transsexuals, inter-sex, and the gender-queer. A transsexual is one who chooses to live as the sex other than the one they were assigned at birth (SRS is not a requirement). Technically, you, Flame, and I are all gender-queer under the broad heading of "transgender". If you don't like the word "queer", "bi-gender" or "gender-fluid" are equivalent labels.
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