An individual?

"What is a man who chooses to dress like a woman on Saturday’s only? A man who lives like a man with his children, but goes to alternative bars dressed as a woman once a week."

I think that says it all. Transgendered? Yes. Transsexual? Nope.

Transgendered covers a multitude of different things - as does, say "Abrahamic", which covers Menoninites, Copts, Hassidim, Sufis, Amish, Catholic, Marian, Druze, Rabbinical, Southern Baptist, Sunni...

What would the classification be. Would he be considered a true TRANSGENDER? If he continues wearing makeup, dresses, and takes estrogen every day so his breast get bigger, but keeps his penis till he dies.

I'm confused and met someone like this and feel he is a FARCE. He lies to woman pretends he is a woman and takes photos of himself dressed like a woman. Why not dress 100% of the time instead of 15%.

What is he really?

What makes you a man or a woman, is not what's between your legs, but what's between you ears. I'm a transsexual woman who's had most of the relevant surgeries so that if I was naked, I would look like a woman. I know many other transsexual peopel in various stages of transition that consider themselves to be what is reffered to as their "chosen gender" - I don't like the words, but they're the best two available at the moment. I've also met a man, who due to cancer, had to have his genitals removed. This man is in his 60's, and is a big strapping man, and there's no doubt that he is a man. This man has no genitals now. He has to sit to pee, he cannot have sexual relations in the same way any other man would be able to, yet he is still a man, still considers himself a man, and is still seen as a man.

Society needs to wake up and realise, that just because something makes you personally feel uncomfortable, doesn't mean it is neccessarily wrong, just wrong for you.

I especially love retarded comments like "they have the plumbing and genetics of a man therefore they are men" especially when so many people do not have "ordinary" XX or XY chromosome pairs, some have intersexed conditions, and some women are sterile or have had organs removed. What, a woman with breast cancer who has her breasts removed -- or a woman who has to have her ovaries and womb removed -- is no longer a woman? She doesn't have the parts!

The bottom line is those two are women. They are thieves, yes, but plenty of women are thieves, too. The two aren't correlated. If anything, it is likely that these two trans women were shoplifting because categorically trans women are below the poverty line. They have trouble getting or maintaining jobs because of prejudice (and lack of job protections), and the costs for transition are incredibly steep. While it doesn't excuse theft, I am sure if any poor woman were to run into a store and steal something and then get caught or shot there would be a lot more sympathy for her.

I am not aiming this at you, Amanda, I just happened to see this blog linked from Google and some of the comments (which I know are not yours) are as I expected them to be: stupid.