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Originally Posted by wreckem713
All of my trans friends do it for sexual gratification. They literally get off to pretending to be the opposite. It's sad really. So much more to life than fantasy
Each person is different and categories can overlap. But your description of your friends sounds more like cross dressers who like to pretend they are the other gender but still perceive themselves as the gender that matches their body, rather than the transgender people dealing with the conflict between the gender identity they perceive themselves as and the body they are in.
So a man may perceive himself as a man but enjoys dressing up as a woman (for many reasons) but still at the end of the day perceives himself as a man. Whereas a transgender person may perceive their gender identity as female, and want their body and outward appearance to match that female gender identity rather than that of a man.