Transgender sexuality

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Sexuality in transgender individuals encompasses all the issues of sexuality of other groups, including establishing a sexual identity, learning to deal with one's sexual needs, and finding a partner, but may be complicated by issues of gender dysphoria, physical, physiological, and emotional effects of hormone replacement therapy and/or surgery, psychological aspects of expressing sexuality after medical transition, or social aspects of expressing their gender identity. Gender identity and being transgender are distinct concepts from sexuality and sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is an individual's enduring pattern of attraction, or lack thereof, to others (being straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, etc.), whereas gender identity is a person's innate knowledge of their own gender (being a man, woman, non-binary, etc.). Transgender people exhibit the same range of sexual orientations as the general public, but are much less likely to identify as straight. Studies of trans people...

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