WAR OF WORDS : Difference Between Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex & Hijra.

There is lot of confusion among the people about these terms. Many of us don’t know the exact difference between these sexual minorities. So let’s clear the confusion and see the unique behavior of each set separately.

Transgender: 'Transgender' describes a person who dresses, behaves or presents themselves in a way that is different from their actual gender norm.

Transgenders are mostly men/women who want to keep their original body parts and without changing the gender they enjoy privileges of being a person of other gender.

Transgender is one who portrays himself as woman WITHOUT changing his gender and vice-versa.

It includes: Cross Dressers, Drag Queens/Kings, etc…

(A male-to-female transgendered person is referred to as ′transgender woman′ and a female-to-male transgendered person is referred to as ′transgender man′).

Transsexual: “Trans’’ means "to cross" and the “Sexual” part refers to the “physical body’’. To cross/change the gender there is only one option - ‘Sex Change Surgery’. It also implies surgery, since that is the only way to change the gender.

Transsexual is one who converts into male to female by changing his gender and vice-versa.

Intersex: It’s known as third gender in many cultures.

An intersex person is one who is born with or develops mixed sexual physiological abnormality.

He/She has born with both male and female biological organs and/or genitalia and it is difficult to identify the actual gender of that person. According to statistics, at least one in 2,000 children is intersex.

Hijra: Hijras (eunuchs) are born as biological males who reject their ′masculine′ identity in due course of time to identify either as women, or not-men, or in-between man and woman, or neither man nor woman.

They fall under category ‘Third Gender’, It’s more close to Transsexual concept but mostly eunuch prefers to be fall under Third Gender rather than any specific gender identitiy.

So this are the large differences between these 4 unique gender identity so treat them with love and respect cuz They are just “Born This Way’’.