WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?  SHEMALE, TRANNY, TRANSGENDERED, TRANSVESTITE, CROSS-DRESSERS...

Here are but a few 'guidances' to not say definitions of just a few gender related terms in the niche/community.

Transexual, Tranny, Transsexual, TS :
A person wishes (wants) to change his or her physiological gender to the opposite of the one assigned at birth and to live permanently in the new gender role. Transexuals can be either pre-operative (pre-op) or post-operative (post-op).

OTHER DEFINITIONS: