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transsexualist

noun

Etymology

From transsexual + -ist.

  1. borrowed from sexuālis
  2. formed as transsexual — “trans- + sexual”
  3. suffixed as transsexualist — “transsexual + ist”

Definitions

  1. A transsexual person.

    • Most transsexualists are males […] Pseudo-hermaphrodites or other intersexes are not to be confused with transsexualists; transvestites may be transsexualists, but not necessarily.
    • [M]oreover the femininity would be required for the body only, not for the mind. For if a transvestite wanted to be female all the time, he would be a transsexualist.

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