Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Identifying as or having undergone medical treatment to become a member of the opposite sex.
- adjective Of or relating to transgender people.
- noun One who is transgender.
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- adjective of a person Having changed gender identity from male to female, or from female to male. (Compare
transsexual .) - adjective broadly, of a person Not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of
male orfemale ; having changed gender identity from male to female or female to male, or identifying with elements of both, or having some othergender identity . (Comparetranssexual ,transvestite andgenderqueer .) - noun
Transgenderism . - noun A transgender person.
- verb To change the
gender of; (used loosely) to change thesex of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving a partial or full reversal of gender
Etymologies
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Examples
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She also notes that even the term transgender contains meanings which are "still under construction," suggesting an intellectual movement of savvy terminology which continues to evolve.
Review of Transgender History Renee 2009
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PINSKY: Does the term transgender trouble you in some way or?
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She also notes that even the term transgender contains meanings which are "still under construction," suggesting an intellectual movement of savvy terminology which continues to evolve.
Archive 2009-07-01 Renee 2009
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Now 70, Richards rejects the term transgender along with all the fluidity it conveys.
(Rethinking) Gender 2007
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More recently, the term transgender can also mean someone who considers that they fall "between" genders, not identifying strictly to one gender or the other, identifying themselves as neither fully male, nor female.
09/28/2007 2007
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As a young boy she had not yet learned the term transgender, which describes a person whose emotional identity does not conform to his or her birth gender.
Freep.com - RSS 2009
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But Clinton did not use the term transgender in his version.
Dakota Voice 2009
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Never mind that the word "transgender" never appears in the article, nor does it discuss the issue of "acceptance."
Terry Krepel: The Media Research Center's Transgender Freakout Terry Krepel 2011
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BRENDA WADE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Jane, before we even get to those changes, there ` s a lot of emotional upset for somebody who has what we call transgender dysphoria (ph), which is a lot of the emotional disturbance or even depression.
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These attacks result in transgender citizens being forced out of their neighborhoods.
alinavivo commented on the word transgender
Hello, i'm new here. How do i fix things in Wordnik? Listing "homosexual" as an "equivalent" is just plain incorrect. Transgender is about gender (socially constructed). Homosexual is about sexual attraction (sex, not gender).
October 22, 2012