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How do people feel about the interchangeability of the words transgender and transsexual? I have always winced at the word transsexual and I really embrace the word transgender and I’m not sure why. I would consider myself trans to a certain extent but include neither suffix. Nor am I really ‘out’ as trans, people assume [...]

Society and the Realities of “Blending in”

A friend of mine and I have been engaged in an email conversation, which evolved into a discussion about transgender people not being able to easily “blend” into society. My friend is a male to female transgender woman (MTF), and I am pasting here a portion of what she wrote, followed [...]