Transexualidad

Las personas transexuales tienen una identidad de género que no coincide con su sexo asignado al nacer y desean hacer una transición al sexo con el que se identifican, por lo que suelen buscar asistencia médica (incluidas las terapias de reasignación de sexo, como la terapia de sustitución hormonal y la cirugía de reasignación de sexo) para ayudarles a alinear su cuerpo con su sexo identificado. No debe confundirse con las personas intersexuales.

La transexualidad es un subconjunto del conjunto transgénero,^[1]​^[2]​^[3]​ pero algunas personas transexuales rechazan el término transgénero, al que consideran una etiqueta.^[4]​^[5]​^[6]​^[7]​^[8]​^[9]​

1. ↑ Transgender Rights (2006, ISBN 0816643121), edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter
2. ↑ Thomas E. Bevan, The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism (2014, ISBN 1440831270), page 42: "The term transsexual was introduced by Cauldwell (1949) and popularized by Harry Benjamin (1966) [...]. The term transgender was coined by John Oliven (1965) and popularized by various transgender people who pioneered the concept and practice of transgenderism. It is sometimes said that Virginia Prince (1976) popularized the term, but history shows that many transgender people advocated the use of this term much more than Prince. The adjective transgendered should not be used [...]. Transsexuals constitute a subset of transgender people."
3. ↑ A. C. Alegria, Transgender identity and health care: Implications for psychosocial and physical evaluation, in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, volume 23, issue 4 (2011), pages 175–182: "Transgender, Umbrella term for persons who do not conform to gender norms in their identity and/or behavior (Meyerowitz, 2002). Transsexual, Subset of transgenderism; persons who feel discordance between natal sex and identity (Meyerowitz, 2002)."
4. ↑ Valentine, David. Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category, Duke University, 2007
5. ↑ Stryker, Susan. Introduction. In Stryker and S. Whittle (Eds.), The Transgender Studies Reader, New York: Routledge, 2006. 1–17
6. ↑ Kelley Winters, "Gender Madness in American Psychiatry, essays from the struggle for dignity, 2008, p. 198. "Some Transsexual individuals also identify with the broader transgender community; others do not."
7. ↑ «Transsexualism». Gender Centre. March 2014. Archivado desde el original el 4 de marzo de 2016. Consultado el 5 de julio de 2016. «Transsexualism is often included within the broader term 'transgender', which is generally considered an umbrella term for people who do not conform to typically accepted gender roles for the sex they were assigned at birth. The term 'transgender' is a word employed by activists to encompass as many groups of gender diverse people as possible. However, many of these groups individually don't identify with the term. Many health clinics and services set up to serve gender variant communities employ the term, however most of the people using these services again don't identify with this term. The rejection of this political category by those that it is designed to cover clearly illustrates the difference between self-identification and categories that are imposed by observers to understand other people.» 
8. ↑ «ICD-10». Archivado desde el original el 21 de septiembre de 2008. Consultado el 28 de septiembre de 2008. 
9. ↑ American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (Text Revision). American Psychiatric Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89042-025-6.