I suggest you educate yourself, because wikipedia is not a reliable source. Here is a page that also happens to help: https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgende

I suggest you educate yourself, because wikipedia is not a reliable source. Here is a page that also happens to help: https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender The bottom line is that transexual is a subset of transgender, which is an umbrella term. If you write transexual refering to a person whom you do not know particularly identifies as transexual in can be seen as hate speech in many places.