What is the difference between Transgender, Transsexual and Cross-dressers?
Transsexuals are people who have surgery to change their birth sex. Cross-dressers are people (often straight) who enjoy dressing up (or dragging up) as the opposite sex. Sometimes this is for sexual pleasure, sometimes for a more generalised sense of fulfilment and sometimes its simply for entertainment on the stage. Transgender is an umbrella term and covers all of the above. It also is used to describe people who live and conform to their preferred sex but do not have surgery. It also describes people who do not identify strictly as one gender, as defined by society, but a mixture of both, male and female.