Transgender/Trans
(adj) An umbrella term describing people who feel the need to present themselves to the world in a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Transgender people may go on to describe themselves as transsexual, transvestite, crossdressers, intersex or by a number of other terms (including, simply, man or woman).
Transvestite
(adj, occ n) A person who wears the clothing of the gender opposite to the one they were assigned at birth, but does not feel the requirement ...
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