They often seek medical treatment to change their physical attributes to correspond with their gender identity. This treatment may include hormone therapy, electrolysis, and surgery. Psychotherapy and real life experience in the new gender role is required for most medical treatment. The difference is that cross dressers' gender identity remains the same as their anatomical sex. They usually do not seek medical treatment.
Erotic pleasure is sometimes the motivation for cross-dressing, especially in younger people.
Even worse, many surgeries in infancy remove or diminish later sexual sensation and enjoyment. Transgenderists live as members of the other sex, but without the extreme need or desire to alter their bodies that transsexuals experience. Androgynes, Gender Benders, and Gender Blenders merge the characteristics of men and women in various ways, which are sometimes subtle and sometimes shocking. Drag Kings and Drag Queens present larger than life images of men and women, exaggerating gender stereotypes for entertainment, attention, or self-gratification. The Transgender Community is the term used for the organized community of transgendered people.