What exactly is the difference?

[Bailey_in_Mansfield]

...between transgender and transexual?

[MissAmy]

trangendered is probably a female in a male body and vice versa, transsexual is probably what you call someone who has went through a sex change.

[Loni]

transgendered is blurning the lines a bit.

transsexual is changing you birth bodys gender to the other gender.

bysexual is having sex either or.

"gay" is having sex with same gender.

"streight" is having sex only with the oppesit gender.

and then there are some that just do not "fit" a lable.

sound about right??

[Lorileah]

transgender is more an umbrella word that covers most of the people here. A transsexual is a person who feels that they are in the wrong physical body from what they are mentally and spiritually and is transgendered as well. They may or may not go through SRS to become a physical representative of the opposite gender. There are no concrete definitions for any of those but CD's, DQ's, TS's, fetishists, FMI's and anyone who does things associated with the opposite gender can be considered transgendered.

[Tamara Croft]

You aren't going to get a definite answer, there is none... and this thread will probably turn into a slanging match... So I will say this and then close the thread.

Transgender is known to most as an umbrella term for all, TS, CD, MTF, FTM etc etc... Transsexual, well there are many definitions, but the known term is a woman trapped in a mans body, should have been born female.