Androgyne?  Transsexual?  It's all Greek to me! 

Stop arguing over words;  focus on people instead!  People who are suffering every day of their lives....

Unfortunately the prejudice & bigotry that causes the suffering is hidden in a fog of word abuse.  Here are the basics that help you to see through the fog:

The Key Words that describe every person, and who chooses the words:

Gender	PERSONALITY	Innate
Gender Identity	Internal awareness	Innate
Gender Expression	Personality manifest in social stereotypes	Society
Body Image	What the body SHOULD look like	Innate
Biologic Sex	Biology:  chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, etc	Nature
Sexual Orientation	Romantic partner selection	Innate

ANDROGYNE       Someone with a mixed gender--both female & male personality traits.  The terms “Butch” and “Tomboy” refer to a female with  traditionally masculine personality traits.  A male “Crossdresser” is someone who lives most of the time as a male, but occasionally assumes a female social role.   In other words, they alternate between a male gender-expression and a female gender-expression.

GENDER     Innate personality traits that are specific to being Female, Male, or Mixed.  Hormone exposure during fetal development and childhood results in differences in brain functioning.  When given the same task, different portions of the brain are activated in females compared to males.  These anatomic differences translate into innate differences in gifts & skills.   These differences include spatial orientation & processing, language vs math skills, etc.

GENDER EXPRESSION     Outward signs of gender:  clothes, hair, mannerisms, roles.  A person’s innate Gender Identity adopts prevailing social stereotypes to produce an outward expression of gender.

GENDER IDENTITY        An innate feeling of being female, male or mixed.  Everyone knows whether they’re male or female, even if their biology has been changed by injury or surgery.

INTERSEXUAL       Someone with a mixture of both female & male BIOLOGIC traits.   Intersexuality is completely independent of gender (personality traits).  For example, one intersexual might have XX (female) chromosomes but male genitals.  Another might have testosterone (male hormone) in their blood, in addition to ovaries and a uterus (female gonads and internal organs).

SEX    Biologic traits that are specific to being Female, Male, or Mixed.  Includes chromosomal expression, hormones, genitals, gonads, chest development, hair distribution, body fat distribution, physiology, neuroanatomy, etc.  

TRANSGENDER  An all-encompassing term which includes both androgynes and transsexuals

TRANSSEXUAL  Someone whose biology at birth didn’t match their innate Gender Identity.  For example one transsexual might have a male-pattern brain function and resultant personality (gender), but be born with female genitals.   Those genitals lead the obstetrician to believe they’re female, even though the infant is actually male.

TRANSITION   The process of moving from a wrong gender-expression to a right gender-expression.  The process may include any or all of the following:  adoption of stereotype (clothes, mannerisms, lifestyle, etc);  hormone treatment;  surgery;  legal document change.