Sex vs Gender AGAIN

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Nov 16, 2014 16:23:36 GMT -5 dirrtybutter said:

Nov 16, 2014 16:13:34 GMT -5 @daubachsgirl23 said:

Yes, I didn't mean to say that all people who have interest or hobbies that are "typical" of the other gender are transgender. There is a lot of fluidity in gender because it's a social construct, more of a subjective and abstract concept. But of course a woman who shaves her head is not automatically transgender, though someone who identifies as transgender may shave their head.

I think I'm just somewhat confused because apparently I thought I knew more about this subject than I actually did. So a transgender person is a person who feels that they were born the wrong gender, and prefers to live as the opposite, or as both genders like a fluid thing? But this person is not automatically gay? My thinking came from "Well if a girl wants to be a boy and live as a boy then she must want to date girls as a boy would" Sometimes I'm an idiot.

A transgender person identifies as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. If a trans woman who was assigned male at birth is attracted to women, she is a lesbian. If she is attracted only to men, she would be straight. She could also be bi, pan, or asexual. 

As to the bolded, there are people who identify as genderqueer, genderfluid, or non-binary because they do not feel they fit into either "traditional" gender, whether because their gender is more fluid/it changes or because they feel that they fall at a fixed point on the gender spectrum that is closer to the middle than either end. I'm not as familiar with the intricacies of these.