What is transgender?

Transgender is a term used to describe many groups of people, such as transsexuals, cross-dressers, and transgendered individuals. These groups of people do not match the sex category they were placed into at birth. Transexuals are people who seek to change their sex. Cross-dressers are those who occasionally or frequently dress in the cloths of the opposite sex. In addition, there are those who are identified as transgendered, meaning that their sex and gender do not "fit" in accordance with social norms. 

Transgender refers to how an individual wishes to express himself/herself , regardless of "sex." As a result, gender attribution is disrupted because a person cannot be placed easily into the appropriate sex category. Transgendering frequently results in gender being correctly assigned, but incorrectly categorized. 

Although the gender binary of masculinity and femininity is seen as mutually exclusive, transgendering can highlight the  ways in which these two  genders can be combined in order to produce a gender that is neither one nor the other, but one that falls outside of the gender binary. Some cultures have provided social spaces fors r more than two genders

Transgendering can also disturb our ideas about the relationship of gender and sexuality. To the degree that sexual identity refers to the way which people are categorized as gay or heterosexual according to the sex of their partner, transgendering suggests a person might be attracted to the gender of the individual, not the sex. For example, a herterosexual woman might be attract to the masculinity of a biological female, but one who presented as a socially masculine transgendered individual. The heterosexual woman might not realize the actual sex of the transgendered individual given the assumption that a person who is masculine is male. 

The heterosexual-gay distinction assumes that everyone falls into one category of sexual identity. Transgendering, however, could result in "passing,"  in which a person is seen as having the sex other than that with which they were born. This would result in an recognizable mismatch (between sex and gender), and therefore could be seen as disrupting the link between gender and sexuality. For example, the "butch lesbian" is female but masculine in "her" gender presentation. And, what about "her" sexual identity? Is the butch lesbian desire for feminine women a heterosexual or gay desire?

Conclusion

In our society, sex, gender and sexuality are understood in binary terms. The only sex categories available are male and female, the only gender categories are masculine and feminine, and the sexual categories are chiefly heterosexual and gay. Moreover, it's been assumed that there is a logical order between sex, gender, and sexuality. For example, a normal female will become a woman whose femininity will express itself in a heterosexual identity. Most Canadians and Americans understand these binaries and this logical order as natural. The recent visibility of transgendered individuals challenges the presumed naturalness of these binaries. Transgendering allows for varied relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality. It challenges the binaries and a presumed natural order between sex, gender and sexuality. 

This is why transgendered individuals face hostility and many challenges in their daily lives.

In the face of this hostility and challenges, transgendered individuals have rallied around a gender identity movement. 

The queer movement, women's movement, men's movement , and transgendered movement need to work together in order to ensure freedom and protection for all.

 For understanding why and what we are see;http://drlarryfalls.blogspot.ca/2014/07/the-biology-of-gender.html