A transvestite is a person who wears clothes and/or assumes the appearance of the opposite sex.
A transexual(Tranny) is a person who has gone through a sex-change operation. A pre-op transexual is one who is taking hormone/testoterone shots or has had a part of the sex-change procedure but not all of it. Shemale is usually slang for pre-op male-to-female transexuals.
A hermaphrodite is a person born with both male and female sexual organs.
A drag queen is in showbidness
