What is the difference between a tranny and a shemale?

What is the difference between transgender, transsexual, shemale, ladyboy, and tranny?

• What is the difference between transgender, transsexual, shemale, ladyboy, and tranny? As much info as possible in the answer helps a lot.

• Answer:

  Let's correct the terms given above. Transgender is *not* the same as transsexual. Transgender is an umbrella term that includes transsexuals, crossdressers, and all sorts of other categories that blur traditional gender lines. A transsexual is a person with a profound sense of mismatch between their anatomical gender and their mind. It's major enough to cause a high rate of suicide and to cause them to risk everything they have to come out. Transsexuals are divided into three categories: pre-op, post-op, and no-op (although it gets more complicated with F2Ms, where it's more appropriate to view the surgery as having two distinct parts ("top surgery" and "bottom surgery"), the former being done more commonly than the latter). Shemale is a term used by the porn industry to refer to transgendered individuals, and often more specifically, transsexuals. It is seen by transsexuals similar to how the N-word is seen by African-Americans, except that it is not used by transsexuals themselves to refer to each other. "Ladyboy" is a rough translation of the Thai word "kathoey". The Thai people have a long tradition of many various forms of M2F transsexualism and crossdressing; Kathoey is sort of a catch-all category. The term is seen as insulting to some, but not universally. "Tranny" is another word generally seen by transsexuals as an insult; however, like the N-word, transsexuals will sometimes use it amongst themselves. Feel free to ask more questions.