Explaining transgender 1: Two types of western transgender

Originally posted 2017-05-29 12:06:26.

After an exchange on Twitter, it has become obvious that even today, people do not realise that there are two distinct types of ‘transgender’ in the West. So I thought I’d recap. This is the first in a series of short articles that will explain what is going on.

There is a distinction between transsexualism and ‘transgender’. Transsexualism only exists within persons born male. There are no female ‘transsexuals’, in a true sense. Female-born ‘transgenders...