transgender

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a person

   Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.

   • Christine Jorgensen, the world's first highly publicized transsexual – or "trans-gender" patient – never planned to be famous because of her surgery.
   • One head of a small gay charity visibly flinched when I mentioned my boyfriend and has been cold towards me ever since. I've even caught someone staring down my top to see if I'm transgender.
2. 2

   Of or pertaining to transgender people (adjective sense 1), or their experiences or…

   Of or pertaining to transgender people (adjective sense 1), or their experiences or identity.

   • We have taken to the local radio station, to talk about transgender problems.
   • A Chinese court on Thursday found that a transgender man was unjustly fired from his job, a first-of-its-kind ruling that activists called a step forward in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
3. 3

   Of a space

   Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.

   • The Las Vegas Lounge is the city's only transgender bar.
   • Trance […] A thriving transgender bar on the main Itaewon drag, […]
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   1. 4

      Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”).

   2. 5

      A transgender person

      • In a patriarchal society in which machismo rules, MTF [male-to-female] transgenders represent a challenge to traditional masculinity due to their renouncing of the male position of social power.
   3. 6

      Synonym of transgenderism (“the state of being transgender”).

      • In spite of not "rootin' and tootin'" as a trans-gender case, in recent years [Christine] Jorgensen has been a staple on the college lecture circuit, speaking – of course – about trans-gender and herself.
      • The Scientific Humanitarian Committee published a yearbook that reported on movement activities. It also documented literary, cross-cultural, cross-historical and scientific studies on same-sex love and transgender.
      • Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.
   4. 7

      To change the gender of (someone).

   5. 8

      To change the sex of (someone).

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