Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Transgender.
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- adjective Describing a person of one
sex who considers himself or herself to really belong to the opposite sex, or who wishes to besurgically converted to the opposite sex, or has been so converted. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
transgender .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving a partial or full reversal of gender
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Examples
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Do you mean people who identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned to at birth, including transsexuals who might reject the term transgendered or insist that their post-transition gender/identity is wholly straightforward?
Trans Identity–Sex Changes, Race Changes, Drag, and Passing 2006
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Do you mean people who identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned to at birth, including transsexuals who might reject the term transgendered or insist that their post-transition gender/identity is wholly straightforward?
Trans Identity–Sex Changes, Race Changes, Drag, and Passing 2006
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"It's unbelievable that a song about accepting everyone, with the word transgendered in it, was number one for so long," says his friend Michael Joseph, modestly dressed in skinny jeans and lobster heels.
The Guardian World News Simon Hattenstone 2011
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert musical on Broadway and the word "transgendered" pops up in chart-topping pop songs.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed J. KELLY NESTRUCK 2011
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The terms transgendered and professional motor sports just don't go together, especially when you say I'm 5 foot 6 inches and weigh 118 pounds.
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People who were "transgendered" - that is, fulltime crossdressers, pre-operative transsexuals, and non-operative transsexuals were not considered.
The Road to Hell Zoe Brain 2006
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People who were "transgendered" - that is, fulltime crossdressers, pre-operative transsexuals, and non-operative transsexuals were not considered.
Archive 2006-09-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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I say "a related conversation" because, despite the critical alliances between gay and lesbian people and people who identify as transgendered, it's not the same conversation and sometimes it is a very different one.
Archive 2009-09-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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So in light of that, the decision to remove what we currently call transgendered people from a bill to ban anti-gay discrimination in the workplace couldn't be more misguided.
Gabriel Rotello: If ENDA Doesn't Protect the Transgendered, It Doesn't Protect Me 2008
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To be sure, gender-distorting prenatal abnormalities do affect some individuals, and may increase the likelihood that such an afflicted person will later self-identify as transgendered or transsexual and in some cases, homosexual.
Letter to the Editor Zoe Brain 2007
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