Do you believe that gender q***r is a form of transexuality?

Question

the only conflict i see in this argument is the fact that gender q****s aim to not achieve any gender and go androgynous but transexuals aim to look like a specific gender. but both are either leaving or altering their appearance. as to appear as androgynous or the opposite gender.

Answer 1

Transfolx and genderqueer folx share a rebellion against the gender role ascribed to them as a result of the genitalia they were born with. The difference between them is whether or not they fit in one of the gender binary boxes or want to "transition". Some genderqueer people do transition and continue to ID as genderqueer, seeing themselves not as "men" or "women" but as something else (e.g. Kate Bornstein).  Some genderqueer people do not hormonally or surgically transition, but do socially transition to ID as something other than their birth gender role. So there's some overlap. But some trans people do not see themselves as genderqueer but definitively men or women and some genderqueer people see "transitioning" as switching from one end of the binary to the other and vehemently want nothing to do with it. I'd say genderqueer and transsexuality are two forms of transgender expression with some overlap between them. But, that's because I see "transgender" as the umbrella box that also contains cross-dressers, drag queens, drag kings and so on.