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 transsexual people.
- noun One who is transsexual.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person Being a transsexual.
- noun A person whose
gender self-image contradicts with the physical gender he/she was born with. - noun One who has changed or is in the process of changing his/her physical sex by undergoing medical treatment such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or
sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex
- noun a person who has undergone a sex change operation
- adjective overwhelmingly desirous of being, or completely identifying with, the opposite sex
Etymologies
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Examples
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But as far as like the term transsexual, I just totally don't prefer at all.
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Part two will be a discussion about how many classic transsexuals don't want to be labeled as transgender, and how new and legacy LGBT media needs to address self-identification when people who could fall under the term transsexual don't want to be unwillingly absorbed by transgender terminology into transgender community.
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If you're looking for an English word to describe these women, "transsexual" is probably closest; "pre-op transsexual" or "non-op transsexual" is possibly more accurate, though contentious.
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The problem about being transsexual is that you really never have a break.
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The problem about being transsexual is that you really never have a break.
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Yes SA ET, dropping the transsexual is like a MAGIC PROTECTION against violence.
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We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'third-gender grave' in the Czech Republic, says archaeologist Katerina Semradova.
Archaeologists find remains of 5,000-year-old 'gay caveman' 2011
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The REASON I use transsexual is to avoid colonizing our umbrella term, making “trans” exclude people for whom it is relevant, who could help us in coalition, or who identify with it.
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
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It made no sense to me, since if there was a problem with the word transsexual, which there isn't, then there should have been a problem with the word transvestite.
Alex Blaze: Glee Neuters Rocky : "Tranny" Is OK but "Transsexual" Isn't? Alex Blaze 2010
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Anyway, one of the lyric changes was taking the word transsexual out of "Sweet Transvestite" and replacing it with "sensational."
Alex Blaze: Glee Neuters Rocky : "Tranny" Is OK but "Transsexual" Isn't? Alex Blaze 2010
owanderer commented on the word transsexual
Ha! I knew that transsexual had two s's and not just one.
January 25, 2012