Chris is a person who believes that he was born into the wrong-gender body. The term to best describe Chris is
a. transvestite c. homosexual
b. gender bender d. transsexual
D
Transvestites are transgendered people who may dress as persons of the gender opposite of their birth gender but still identify as their birth gender. Gender benders dress and have mannerisms that make their gender identity difficult to determine. Homosexual refers to sexual orientation which is of the same sex. Transsexual is a transgendered person who believes they were born into the wrong-gendered body. They take on the dress, roles, and behaviors of the gender opposite of their birth and may eventually take hormone therapy and have surgery to become who they perceive they were really born to be.
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