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transsexual

14 7.5
Describing someone who was born one sex but now lives as a different gender, often after medical treatment
  • adjective
  • /trænˈsɛkʃuəl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : transexual (arcaico)
  • San Francisco, for example, has been working hard to protect its transgender and transsexual citizens.
  • transsexual male
  • transsexual woman
  • transsexual patients

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Examples

  • We were just telling your friend a little bit about the transsexual lifestyle.

  • The clear disconnect between my sex and my gender identity is what underpins my transsexual experience.

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  • In other words, according to this theory, transsexual people are "born this way."

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  • People who are transgender or transsexual do not see themselves as "what" they are.

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  • There are three major centers for transsexual surgery.

  • A person can dislike me based solely on the fact that I am transsexual.

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  • Well, technically, because of the hormone-induced breasts, she'd be classified as a transsexual or transgender.

  • The problem isn't that Manning may be transsexual; the real problem is that the transsexuality hasn't been treated yet.

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  • The support group welcomes everyone, including those who identify as transsexual and seek community resources.

  • Many transsexual individuals choose to share their stories to raise awareness about their experiences.

Synonyms

transgender
vstranssexual
71 5.9

Relating to people whose gender is different from the sex they were given at birth

focuses on people who have medically changed their physical sex characteristics
trans-identified
vstranssexual
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A person who says they are a different gender than given at birth

emphasizes those who undergo medical procedures to alter sex characteristics

Compounds

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Operations and hormone treatment that change a person's body so it looks more like a man or a woman

Surface Forms

transsexual positive

Morphology

transsexual = sexual (semi-transparent) = trans + sex + ual

The morphological pieces are clear, but the adjectival meaning referring to identifying as a different gender (often after medical procedures) contains specific sociocultural nuance not fully predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Transsexual as an adjective uses the same parts: trans- meaning 'across' and sexual, from sex, meaning 'male or female'. So when someone is described as transsexual, it means they identify as a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth, often after medical steps to change their body.