This is the frustrated person's quick guide to the transgender spectrum. Perhaps the most visible of transgender people are drag queens and drag kings . These men and women enjoy presenting themselves as another gender and do not necessarily want to be another gender. While many people in our society cross-dress, or wear clothing typically associated with another gender, transvestites wear it because it gives them an erotic rush.
Most transvestites are heterosexual men.
Gender benders sometimes want to shock or make a statement by wearing clothes associated with another gender. These people are comfortable with their anatomical sex and simply believe that labels like male and female don't quite describe who they are. Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein have written some good material on this approach to gender. Once called hermaphrodites, intersexed individuals are born with unusual genitalia or some form of both male and female genitalia. The sex chosen may not match the gender identity of the child, however.