Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 473. The title of today's lesson is the
difference between transvestite, transsexual, and transgender. Okay. If somebody wants a screenshot,
do it right now. Okay. There is a lot of times confusion with students to know the difference
between these. There is some crossover. It's probably a little clearer and a little easier
to understand transvestite and transsexual. Transgender usually needs a lot more explanation
to understand it fully. All right. Let's start. A transvestite is a person who wears clothing
typical of the opposite sex, especially for sexual pleasure. So that's his reason for doing it.
In most cases it's probably going to be men dressing like women. It could it be
a woman ? Yeah. But women usually have to go to a much further extent in order to look like a
transvestite because a lot of women can wear men's clothes. It's kind of normal and depending upon
how she wears it , she might even look sexy wearing it. But if she's going to become a
transvestite, she'll probably have to wear like a man's business suit , slicked back her hair
especially if she tries to wear a fake mustache or a fake beard. Well then she's ... then she's
there . But it's not as easy. Probably the majority of cases you see of transvestites
will be men dressing like women. All right. Let's continue. Transsexual is a man who wants to become
a woman or a woman who wants to become a man and has already started the process of one or more
operations to physically change one's sex or one's ... you know to the opposite gender. Yeah.
This is ... these operations are usually painful and they're usually very expensive to do. So that
would be a transsexual you literally , physically at least changed your sex. Well. Let's continue.
If someone is transgender, it means that person does not identify with the sex assigned to them at
birth and simply wishes to be the opposite sex. Yes. Sometimes like you see this in the movies
too. You know, you could see somebody say that you know, I'm a man you know, born in a woman or
I'm a woman trapped in the body of a man. You know, that's what you might see this in movies.
This is kind of the idea when it comes to transgender. So let's continue.
To clarify , one should examine further. If one is a transsexual nearly a hundred percent would
fall into this category of transgender because one would never go through such expensive and painful
operations without really identifying as being the opposite sex. I think I can only really think
of one case on some documentary channel I watched one time where it was a gambler. He actually made
a bet with another guy that he would actually you know have a sex change to get (female) breasts.
Just for the bet. I think it was like for a hundred thousand dollars the other guy didn't
think he'd really go through with it , but he did. But this would in this case he would not really be
transgender because he was married. He had a wife. He had children. He was not attracted to
men at all. He didn't really identify with being the opposite sex. So he would not be transgender,
but that's only that's the only case I could actually think of. Most people if they go through
all this trouble they usually really identify with being the opposite sex. They are transgender
for sure. Let's go on. All right transvestite. All right transvestite is a little more tricky.
Probably most transvestites also fall into the transgender category , especially if they truly
identify with wanting to be the opposite sex . However there is a small percentage
of transvestites who only do it as a way to get a sexual kick out of it. They don't really identify
with the opposite sex. Many are married and are not attracted to the same sex. You know, they
they have a wife. They may have children. I think a lot of the ones that fall into this category
may be more like in the closet transvestites. That probably mostly do it at home and don't risk going
out wearing that much but. Yet. Some of them might do it too because I don't know they just get some
sort of a kinky feeling of you know, a sexual kick out of it. That's their main goal. There
are also some performers may cross-dress just for performing. That's totally different though.
They might just be doing it as part of their job for entertainment to make people laugh or
whatever it is that they're doing. You know , in a movie , they would definitely not be transgender.
If they don't identify with the opposite sex. So they're not attracted to the opposite sex.
Okay. So let's continue. We okay ... however oh ! This is another very important point.
However it is still possible to be transgender even if one is not a transvestite or transsexual.
You simply need to profess that you desire to be the opposite sex. It's a little bit like what I
said before like if somebody says like you know, they're ... they're a woman trapped in the body of
a man. You know, they don't have to do anything. They don't have to change their clothes and this
is where some of the problems came in, in the US when some companies changed or had the policy of
having transgender bathrooms because any man could just end up walking into the woman's room and say
that they are ... you know, transgender. And there was no way to know because they're not dressed
like a woman. They didn't have , they didn't they ... Obviously did not have an operation.
So some, some, some people suspected that maybe you know this might open the door to some people
that are more like perverts . You know, they just want to go into the woman's bathroom... either to
spy on women or possibly even to smile spy on small children or something along that line.
So this is where some of the problems have come in when they talked about the transgender bathrooms.
But you can understand that was the problem. All right. Let's continue. And we have we have three
examples to show exactly how we use this. Some gay men choose to be transvestites. Yeah There's a lot
of gay men that are not transvestites. They still dress like men and they're still attracted to men.
They have sexual relations with men and they don't dress like women, But on the other hand
there are some that really want to be the opposite sex. That may do that too. Okay. Let's go on.
Bruce Jenner eventually became a transsexual at the age of 66 and changed his name to
Caitlyn Jenner . He was the famous Olympian when he was younger and you know, then he finally came
out that you know, I guess he was gay and he had these feelings and he went through
with it . And he actually had the operation to change his gender. Okay. So he would... he would
he would be both. He would be a transsexual and a transgender. Okay. Number three here. Some
companies have allowed transgender , transgenders to enter bathrooms that were previously just for
ladies. Okay or if they have transgender bathroom it just might be open to anybody.
So I guess it's kind of like a unisex bathroom. All right. Well anyway, I hope you got it. I hope
this clarified it more. Let me know what you think. Okay. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.