Difference between 'transgender' and 'intersex'
Many of us use the two above words interchangeably without knowing that both the terms are different from each other.
Intersex people have their reproductive anatomy or genes that don't fit typical definitions of male or female which is often discovered at birth.
Transgender on the other hand has to do with your internal knowledge of your gender identity not the orientation of your chromosomes or your external body anatomy.
So you can be an intersex and a transgender
Or an intersex but not a transgender
Or a transgender but not an intersex person
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Transgender, nonbinary, non conforming...Many of us use the terms interchangeably without having complete knowledge of them. In this article, some of the most frequently asked questions have been answered in the easiest ways possible.
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