Depends, trans* covers a lot of terms sech as transgender, transexual, transvestite, genderqueer, genderfluid, non-binary, genderfuck, genderless, agender, non-gendered, third gender, two-spirit, bigender, all of which have lots of tedious technicalities and differences.
We could spend a thread picking apart the differences between transgenderism and transsexualism, but do we really want to be bothered?