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How often does the average university receive a Transgender student? Just thought it was interesting in the "LGBT" tag given to certain progressive societies.

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generalebriety

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Does that matter? Such people exist. A community for them exists, even if not one of them ever takes part.

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Crisps

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I don't know any transgendered people at my university, but most places have active LGBT societies, so I imagine so. I dont see how it can be a problem though.

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MetalA

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It would just be a very interesting sociological fact to know how many Transgendered students are admitted annually to British universities.

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Tag

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Transexual is somebody who has changed their sexual parts.
Transvestite is just cross-dressing.
so what's transgendered? in psychology we learned it was the role associated witha gender, but I get the feeling that that isn't what you're reffering to?

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Crisps

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Don't you have to be 18 to become transgendered? If so, there won't be many I should imagine, but like I said, you will find the odd one or two

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Crisps

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Tag

Transexual is somebody who has changed their sexual parts.
Transvestite is just cross-dressing.
so what's transgendered? in psychology we learned it was the role associated witha gender, but I get the feeling that that isn't what you're reffering to?

Trans-gendered is a posher way of saying you're a trans-sexual (I think...)

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kam

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To be honest, I hadn't heard the term transgendered before this thread.
Would be interesting to know how many go to each University.

Reply 8

Anonymous #1

I've seen 1 post op and 2 pre ops :smile:

they seem really nice, although not spoken to them! They are men-women and I'm just jelous of their figures :eek:

Reply 9

TKR

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Transgendered is the term for anyone who self-identifies as a different gender to their original physical one, isn't it? Whether they've had an op or not.

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MetalA

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Anonymous

I've seen 1 post op and 2 pre ops :smile:

they seem really nice, although not spoken to them! They are men-women and I'm just jelous of their figures :eek:

what university are you at? are they mature students?

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Dalimyr

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Crisps

Trans-gendered is a posher way of saying you're a trans-sexual (I think...)

:whip
Wrong...given that there are almost half a dozen in the TSR LGBTsoc, I'm shocked that you would say such a thing, Chris.

To clarify:
A transsexual is someone who has gone through hormone treatment (and optionally surgery) to assume the physical characteristics of the opposite sex.
As Tag said above, a transvestite is someone who cross-dresses. They generally have no desire to change their physical appearance - they just like wearing clothes associated with the other sex.
A transgendered person is usually someone wishing to assume the physical characteristics of the opposite sex but for one reason or another (maybe they're too young, maybe medical reasons, or maybe even just fear) can't go through with a sex change. As TKR said, it's someone who self-identifies as the opposite sex to their own. Technically, it can also be used to describe transsexuals

I'm trying to say "sex" instead of "gender", because although the two are linked, they're not entirely interchangeable. A person's sex is identified by their physical sexual organs. A person's gender is more of a mental thing.

Transgendered/transsexual people are more common than you might think, but they're still very much a minority in society...according to Wikipedia, an estimate done 18 years ago in Holland suggests that 1 in 12,000 people (0.00008% of the population) are transgendered, but an American TS woman has suggested that the figure could be as high as 1 in 500 (0.002%) for people who experience gender dysphoria (which is basically the medical/psychological term for being transgendered)

Reply 12

MetalA

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I'm not so interested in the profile of TGs/TSs in wider society, more in British Universities. I think that's a more interesting enquiry.

Reply 13

Dalimyr

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MetalA

I'm not so interested in the profile of TGs/TSs in wider society, more in British Universities. I think that's a more interesting enquiry.

It doesn't really make any difference...if 10% of the population are gay, you're likely to get about 10% of university students being gay. Same principle with transsexuals :wink:

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Sarky

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MetalA

I'm not so interested in the profile of TGs/TSs in wider society, more in British Universities. I think that's a more interesting enquiry.

I doubt they sign up at the door when they join so you won't get anyone who knows a figure which will give you the answer you want.

Reply 15

Psyk

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It makes me wonder how well accepted they are in university LGBT societies. Considering the vast majority of them are going to be gays and lesbians, I just get the feeling they may not be that friendly towards them.

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Dalimyr

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Psyk

It makes me wonder how well accepted they are in university LGBT societies. Considering the vast majority of them are going to be gays and lesbians, I just get the feeling they may not be that friendly towards them.

I don't think it'd be too bad...half of the TGs on TSR are bisexual, anyway, if that's anything to go by :smile:

Reply 17

Tag

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technically then, tombyos are transgendered . . . ?

Reply 18

Dalimyr

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Tag

technically then, tombyos are transgendered . . . ?

No...to an extent they act like males, but they still think of themselves as female. You may get the occasional tomboy who'll think at some stage in her life that she should have been born as a boy, but that's not the case for all of them :smile:

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Eco warrior

hey chicks and dudes it been for ever since ive been on here hows eeryone doing :smile:

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