My Interpretation of the Terms Crossdresser, Trap,

I have come to recognise that gender, sex, and sexual orientation/interest are not the same thing. Sex is strictly in terms of sexual organs. Gender, to me at least, is more of a XYZ plot like in Algebra where a person's feelings about themselves have full control of how they choose to define their gender. Sexual orientation is as much related to gender as gender is to sex and they interconnect to form very complex feelings and relationships. This the general idea of how I would try to sort out crossdressing, trap-mode, and trans.

Crossdressing seems to me as an interest that is related to gender-fluidity but not dependent on it. People, both male and female, and gay or straight can take part in crossdressing without considering gender. The reasoning for crossdressing could be anything, but from a non-critical or judgmental standpoint, the reasoning can vary from person to person. On this website and similar ones, crossdressing grouped into trap-mode and trans and viewed basically as a fetish.

Traps are specifically gay males that may or may not take oestrogen. The idea behind the name is that they appear naturally feminine and could "trap" a straight guy by appearing as female. The term is the grey area between crossdressing and transsexuals that take it farther than simply wearing clothes but altering their appearance though generally not in a permanent way like transsexuals with surgical enhancements.

Transsexuals are much more complicated to define. The ones I'm referring to are male to female not female to male. They generally view themselves as being born in the wrong body, so a male transsexual would (generally) feel their gender should be female, their sex female, and their sexual orientation as a result as straight in the their sex should be female and their attraction to men would then be straight rather than gay. This sort of complicated view starts at a very young age and continues through life but sometimes peer and familial pressure to conform to the idea that sex and gender are the same and fear of ostracisation and exclusion force suppression of these feelings. Flip the switches for the female to male transsexuals and it's essentially the same deal.

Here on xhamster, these terms are sexualised and I don't personally have a problem with that. In my trap and trans albums, there may be a mix of two or all three or just one at a time. I hope this topic is semi-clear on my reasoning for including the terms. Also on a personal note, I like very feminine traps and trans but have never been with either.