Originally posted by Stunaep
1: You have a transvestite friend?
2: Psychologically it is more or less the same.
1. No, I have a transsexual friend.
2. No, psychologically, its quite different. A transvestite like to wear clothing generally affected by the opposite gender. They are not necessarily interested in sex reassignment surgery, or otherwise becoming the other gender. A transexual is someone who is in the process of undergoing SRS, whether due gender dysphoria or some other cause.
Thus, a transvestite male should use the men's changing room, whilst a MtF transsexual should use the female's changing room.
Its not so strictly delineated as that, of course. Neither state takes into account social/sexual/gender image, etc. Then again, most societal norms fail to take into account anything but physical gender anyway.
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