Link (http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/features-1/1170587231125380.xml&coll=3)
Terms regarding transgender individuals can be confusing. Here are some distinctions, culled from various sources:
Transsexual: Physical appearance and gender identity are at odds, causing conflict and anguish. May or may not resort to "gender reassignment" (see below).
Transvestite: Also called cross-dresser. The person wears clothes of the opposite sex, often as a sexual release.
Lovely...the media takes it upon themselves to explain to the rest of the confused public the distinctions of transgender terms and this what they come up with.
Transvestites and crossdressers are synonomous (since when, oh wise reporter person? The 60's? The 50's? earlier?)
Stand by while I explain the distinctions of quantum physics to the masses.
<sigh>
Well transvestite was more or less replaced by a whole group of terms, one of which is crossdresser. I think they crossed wires between a crossdresser and a transvestic fetishist though.
Oh and which quantum physics theory(ies)?