Anybody speak French?

[kengr]

I'm trying to have a bit of (simple) French dialog in a story. The character is in a high school French class. Which is about as far as my knowledge of French goes. :-)

Due to the story a couple of words you wouldn't normally encounter in such a situation are going to come up. I've found the appropriate words in an online English-French dictionary. The problem is the *gender* of the words.

So, do I refer to a male-to-female transexual as "transsexuel" or "transsexuelle"??

Likewise, for a boy wearing girl's clothes, is it "travesti" or "travestie"?

Comments

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

Well, this page uses both "transsexuel" and "transsexuelle". Unfortunately, my knowledge of French is limited to "Laissez les bon temps rouler," so I can't figure out how the terms differ.

It does seem as if the generic term is "transsexuel."

~searching further~

Ah, this might help. This site uses "transsexuelle" to describe Christine Jorgensen. Further down, a case history begins as follows: "NB, transsexuelle Homme/Femme...".

[kengr]

Merci beacoup, Monsieur.