The term 'Transvestism' refers to people who enjoy dressing in clothes normally reserved for the opposite sex. Such 'cross dressers' are also amongst the most misunderstood minority groups in the world. Ignorance and pre-conceived notions have been largely responsible for the intolerance usually shown towards cross dressers.
Transsexuals are people who believe they are trapped in the wrong body.
The person thus feels compelled to express himself in the gender to which he feels he belongs. The transsexual female, for instance, is physiologically a normal woman. Very early in the life, however, she identifies with boys and behaves in a manner appropriate to the male sex. She desires to relate with other females and be treated by them as if she were a male. She may cross dress because she is likely to be uncomfortable in the clothes of her biological sex.