Jimmy believes he was born into the wrong sex. He has known all his life that he should have been a girl, and when he was able to, he began dressing like a woman and eventually plans to get gender reassignment surgery to make his body more feminine. Jimmy therefore is ______.

A. heterosexual
B. homosexual
C. bisexual
D. transsexual


Answer: D

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