Shemales or Transsexuals

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Originally Posted by Tsluver23

My thing is if the person still has a cock then it's a shemale. Not until you go forth with castration will you be considered a transexual.

I doubt I should even respond to someone who likes to refer to tgirls as "it," but...

Not that this is the absolute authority on transsexualism, but it is the most accepted by doctors and therapists:

http://www.wpath.org/Documents2/socv6.pdf

Transsexualism (F64.0) has three criteria:

1. The desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by the wish to make his or her body as congruent as possible with the preferred sex through surgery and hormone treatment;
2. The transsexual identity has been present persistently for at least two years;
3. The disorder is not a symptom of another mental disorder or a chromosomal abnormality.

So it is most accurate to include shemales in with TS girls, although some people would say that if a tgirl has no desire to ever get SRS she should not be called TS.

But obviously pre-op transsexuals are still transsexual. I mean, come on.