Just in case you wanted to know... (taken from http://glbt.appstate.edu/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=4)
Straight - A term often used by LGBT people to identify persons who are thought to be heterosexual.
Transgender - 1. a broad term for all individuals whose gender anatomy and identity are incongruent. For example, a person who possesses a female gender anatomy yet experiences their gender identity as male.
2. an umbrella term for transsexuals, cross-dressers (transvestites), transgenderists, intersexuals (hermaphrodites), transgender butches, and people who identify as neither female nor male. Transgender is not gender/sexual orientation as are straight, gay, lesbian and bisexual. Being transgender stems from understanding and accepting the authenticity of one's gender identity.
Transgender Butch - Masculine lesbians who do not identify as women, but may not identify as men either.
Transgenderist - a person who lives either full time, or most of the time, in the gender role opposite the role associated with their biological or chromosomal sex.
Transition - a complicated, multi-step process that can take years as transsexuals align their gender anatomy with their gender identity, this process may ultimately include sex reassignment surgery.
Transsexual - Individual whose gender identity is that of the opposite sex. There are female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals. A transsexual may or may not have had sex reassignment surgery.
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