The A Project

Transgender persons: Individuals who does not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth and want to change through changing their behavior and/or appearance to suit their preferred gender expression. The term transsexual may be used when someone undergoes surgery, hormonal medication or other procedures to make these changes. They may or may not identify as homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual; do not mistake gender identity and sexual orientation to be the same or necesaarily linked to one another.

Intersex person: An individual born with the physical characteristics of both males and female,  have external sex organs that are not easily distinguishable as female or male, or have sex chromosomes that are different from the usual xx — female — or xy — male. These differences in chromosomes may not appear on the body and so they may live their whole lives and never know. These individuals may or may not identify as men or women.