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transsexual

Person who identifies himself or herself completely with the opposite sex, believing that the wrong sex was assigned at birth. Unlike transvestites, who desire to dress in clothes traditionally worn by the opposite sex, transsexuals think and feel emotionally in a way typically considered appropriate to members of the opposite sex, and may undergo surgery to modify external sexual characteristics.

In 1995 Dutch researchers identified a structural difference between the brains of transsexual men and other men. Within the brain a small cluster of cells, the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST), is smaller in women than men. Transsexual males in the study were found to have a female-sized BST. Research is continuing into the significance of this finding.

By May 2001, there were 40,000 post-operative male to female transsexuals in the USA.
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