Those pix are PRICELESS for clarifying that!
I recommend you share those with the folks who are going to run Homophobia in Otakudom!
FYI, there are similar discussions in the non-con community:
e.g.:
what is a female or male impersonator vs. a crossdresser vs. a transvestite vs. a drag queen or king vs. a transsexual vs. a transgendered person vs. an intersexed person?
**to my understanding**
a female [or male] impersonator is: a person who does not biologically have female gender (or does not solely) [or who does not have male gender (or does not solely)] and who performs professionally in full persona as a female, for an audience fully cognizant that that is what they are watching, and who could fully pass during that performance as being believably female. Often they are trying to imitate a particular, famous female [or male] and sing as well as dress in that female's [or male's] style.
a crossdresser is: a person who comfortably and publicly adopts the apparel the mainstream might ascribe to someone of another gender than theirs, for whatever reason.
a transvestite is: a person who privately adopts the apparel the mainstream might ascribe to someone of another gender than theirs, for its erotic value. (Historically there have been many men with this fetish who are heterosexual and married and keep this fetish secret even from their wives.)
a drag king [or queen] is: a person who identifies as TG, TS or female [or male], who performs publicly in a persona as a male [or as female], for an audience fully cognizant that that is what they are watching, but often performing with more flair than a focus on what in Paris Is Burning, for example, was referred to as "realness". Some could pass, but others couldn't, and that's not the point; their singing, dancing, acting, conveying of attitude is more important than their capturing of the ability of the audience to momentarily think they "really" look male [or female].
a transgendered person experiences themselves to have been born bodily different than what they would like to experience, or what they internally experience, as their gender; but they are not necessarily going to do anything surgical about it, or try to change their legal status, or anything like that.
a transsexual person experiences themselves to have been born bodily different than what they would like to experience, and internally experience, as their gender; and they are, to the extent available to them, attempting to live their life as the other gender, whether that means trying to "pass" full time [think Boys Don't Cry], or having "top surgery" as my FTM TS friend is currently saving up to do, or having "bottom surgery" as my MTF TS and my FTM TS friends have already done....
an intersexed person was born with both sets of private anatomy; in most cases, however, such babies are surgically reassigned to be one gender or the other at birth. (Yes this does exist and yes I've known folks it happened to.)
It can be fun when folks mix it up....a good friend of mine is a male-to-female post-operative transsexual who has successfully performed as a drag KING!
So now if THAT person went as either of those versions of mario and luigi...oy vey! LMAO!
