A transgendered person is someone who exhibits nontraditional sexual behavior. Transvestites dress in clothes of another sex either regularly or only on certain occasions. MtF transsgender want to, or already have, physically changed sexes from male to female, and FtM's are vice versa. The First National Survey of Transgender Violence in 1997 of 402 individuals revealed that 55 percent surveyed had been verbally harassed on the street simply because of the way they looked. More often than not their only chance at survival is prostitution.
Workplace discrimination is a common complaint of transgendered people.
Dana Rivers, a high school teacher from the outskirts of Sacramento, was fired after telling her supportive students that she was going to live as her true self, a woman. Quickly made into the butt of a joke, many complain that people that forget someone who looks different, transgendered or otherwise, is still a person. Identities always fantasized about, such as a 70's disco pimpstress or a 40's gangster were allowed to be a reality. With enough glitter and pop dance music any sexual dream can come true.