At issue: defining transgender In today's increasingly politically correct society, the term transgender is loaded with various meanings and implications. The inability to reach a consensus on the universal meaning stems from various interest groups claiming the meaning of the term. For example, the term "transgender" is often mistaken for "transsexual" or "transvestite." The two conditions are completely different separate from transgender. For the purposes of this article, Andrew Solomon's definition will suffice: “The term transgender is an all-encompassing term that includes anyone whose behavior significantly departs from the gender norms suggested by their anatomy at birth. The term transsexual usually refers to someone who has undergone surgery or undergone hormones to align their body with a non-congenital gender” (Solomon, 2012, p. 599). It is useful to know what the main differences are between the terms transsexual and transgender. A transsexual person is someone who has gone through the process of changing their physical sex from the sex they were born with to their desired sex. A transsexual person could be someone who has met the criteria for the DSM-5 diagnosis of gender dysphoria and physical transitions so that their inner self matches their physical body, thus erasing the dysphoric state. Although the term transsexual falls under the umbrella of transgender, it is important to distinguish the two terms. It is important to note that being transgender does not necessarily imply anything about that person's sexual preference. Transgender individuals can be heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, or any other part of the sexual preference spectrum. Understanding what transgender means also takes under... half of the paper....... The results indicated that 16% of the 67 transgender male and female participants had been forced to have sex with a casual partner, and a surprising 25 % of such individuals had been forced to have sex by their primary partner (Stotzer, 127). Further evidence supporting these findings comes from Xavier et al. studies. Xavier and colleagues' findings showed that 35% of transgender people had been forced to have sex with a person who lived in the victim's home at the time of the attack. For male-to-female transgender individuals who entered the world of prostitution, the most common perpetrators were their clients at 60%, someone else at 40%, and finally, their pimp at 20% (Stotzer, 127). Aside from sexual violence, many transgender people are victims of physical violence.