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transsex

verb

Etymology

From trans- + sex.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. prefixed as transsex — “trans + sex”

Definitions

  1. To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another…

    To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.)

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex.
    • Many intersexuals, however, are surgically assigned as male or female, and for some that assignment causes such disharmony between body and psyche that the subject then transsexes in adulthood.

  2. To transgender

    To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.

    • There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.
    • Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.

  3. Transsexual.

    • New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Transsexuality, transsexualism

      Transsexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transsex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA