Posted: 2017-06-10 12:39:17
Edited: 2017-06-10 12:44:28
Transvestite: a person who dresses as the opposite sex for role playing or just fun. Not necessarily a homosexual. In fact, more often normal heterosexual;
Drag King: homosexual (lesbian) female, who dresses as a male but does not live full time as a male; may or may not be in the sex industry or show business; behaves and dresses exaggeratedly as a male; does not want to be a male;
Drag Queen: homosexual (gay) male who dresses as a female but does not live full time as a female; may or may not be in the sex industry or show business; behaves and dresses exaggeratedly as a female; does not want to be a female;
Drag Kings and Queens are a subcategory of transvesticism, more extreme in dressing habits and homosexuality.
Transsexual: a person who identifies with the opposite sex to what they were born as;
Transgender: a person who has completed the physical (surgical) transition to the sex they identify with;
Since sex (not the act) and gender are one and the same thing in English (very different in their original Latin and Old French), very often Transsexual and Transgender are used interchangeably, hence the terms Pre-op or Post-op transsexual.
Shemale: a male-to-female transsexual, who has only the gender reassignment surgery (GRS) left to become a transgender woman. Lives as a female, acts as a female, dresses as female, attracted to males, often bisexual, has prosthetic or home-grown with hormones breasts, no facial or body hair, voice is female. Shemale is the term given to Pre-op transsexuals who work in the sex industry.
So, Dear Drag Queens, please do not mislead the punters into posing as shemales. Advertise as Drag Queens, there are many men who will visit gladly.
Views, please.
Peace