Because people biologically are divided into two floors - men and women, there are also two main genders. A gender, unlike a floor - the psychological concept connected with sexual self-identity. However there are, besides a men's and female gender, also transgender people.
Instruction
1. The Transgendernost is the collective concept designating a discrepancy of a biological and social floor (gender). It is accepted to carry transsexuals, transvestites, androgens, interseksual, bigender and agender to transgender people.
2. Transsexuals are people who on a constant basis associate themselves with the floor opposite to the biological. Part of them seek to change the floor and at the physical level by means of operation or hormonal therapy and also to change entry in the passport. Others are not going to do operation, but behave as people of an opposite sex, call themselves by other name and demand it from others.
3. Transvestites like to play a role of an opposite sex. So, men can derive pleasure, putting on a women's clothing, and women - men's. They can even participate in the corresponding shows. However they, unlike transsexuals, not necessarily identify themselves with an opposite sex, and certain bright emotions from disguise or sexual excitement can just experience, be prone to fetishism.
4. The androgen is a person who feels approximately equally as the representative of both sexes. He does not play any certain gender role and often prefers in clothes style a unisex. At the time of blossoming of a glam rock many musicians used an image of an androgen in creativity. Androgyny - first of all a psychological concept. Anatomic such person can have at the same time both male, and female sexual characters, signs some same-gender, and can not be them in general.
5. Interseksualami name people who have sexual characters of both sexes, at the same time they are not up to the end developed and are on the same parts of the body. As a rule, the embryonal development in mother's womb at such people begins normally, but at some point proceeds towards other floor. Intersexuality is and genetically caused (zigotny) when at fertilization of an ovum in formation of set of genes and sexual chromosomes there is a deviation. In ancient times of interseksual called hermaphrodites.
6. Bigendera have mobile gender identity. Irrespective of the biological floor, they can feel men, women and to play a different social role, depending on different factors - circumstances, mood, the interlocutor. The Bigendernost is not connected with sexual orientation in any way. Bigendera have no split personality, the psychological integrity and at the same time changeability of gender perception is inherent in them.
7. Agendera do not associate themselves neither with one, nor with other floor. Biologically they can be both women, and men, and interseksuala.