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Transgender is a much broader category. Transsexual implies physical changes to a person's body (depending on context, usually counting secondary sex characteristics which hormone replacement therapy can manipulate) to relieve dysphoria - transgender simply means that a person identifies as a gender other than that they were assigned at birth. Also, transsexual can be used as a noun mostly for historical reasons but I imagine some people frown on this and I don't care for it myself.
If I may go off on a sociopolitical tangent: transgender is the preferred nomenclature these days because it is not body-centric and a lot of discourse around trans people focuses on our bodies ("trap", anyone?) rather than us as persons. This is a problem because it results in things like politicians trying to ban trans people from using the correct restroom. And rules for changing gender markers on legal documents which require specific (and often unattainably expensive) medical procedures. I mean, also transphobia's a huge part of that obviously, but.
Transgender is a much broader category. Transsexual implies physical changes to a person's body (depending on context, usually counting secondary sex characteristics which hormone replacement therapy can manipulate) to relieve dysphoria - transgender simply means that a person identifies as a gender other than that they were assigned at birth. Also, transsexual can be used as a noun mostly for historical reasons but I imagine some people frown on this and I don't care for it myself.
If I may go off on a sociopolitical tangent: transgender is the preferred nomenclature these days because it is not body-centric and a lot of discourse around trans people focuses on our bodies ("trap", anyone?) rather than us as persons. This is a problem because it results in things like politicians trying to ban trans people from using the correct restroom. And rules for changing gender markers on legal documents which require specific (and often unattainably expensive) medical procedures. I mean, also transphobia's a huge part of that obviously, but.