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Petergee
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I would say the treatments commonly offerred may be similar but the diagnoses are different.They are not mutually exclusive categories.
A transsexual is someone who changes which sex they live as in their daily lives. An intersexed person is someone with mixed chromosomes, hormones, anatomy etc. I was born and assigned one gender, I rebelled against that one from about the age of four and eventually changed the sex I appear/work/live as, thus I am both intersexed and transsexual.
The diagnosis and treatment for transsexuals and intersexuals that reject their initial assignment is more or less the same, we go to the same doctors, therapists, specialists, surgeons etc as transsexuals.
A transexual is someone who is (chromosomes, anatomy, hormones) of a definite sex, but who chooses to request surgery and drugs to make himself superficially appear to be the opposite sex.
I would say you are not a transexual, but an intersex/hermaphrodite who has chosen to have treatment to correct the treatment you were mistakenly given at birth, which was presumably due to a mistaken assessment of your sex based on the superficial appearance of the genitals, rather than based on your genetic makeup.
Treatment of a “transexual” to “change” their sex is immoral. Your treatment to correct mistaken treatment is OK.