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Clayton JA, Tannenbaum C. Reporting sex, gender, or both in clinical research?. JAMA. 2016;316(18):1863–1864. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.16405 A transexual is more of someone who feels the need to medically transition regardless if they have started the process or not(hormones and surgery). They are transexual. Thus they are changing there primary and/or secondary sex characteristics among other things to match something other then what they were born with.