transgender
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- noun
- /trænˈdʒɛndər/
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persona transgénero
- We excluded 7 participants who self-identified as transgender.
- identify as transgender
I'm afraid that I will say something wrong when I talk to blank transgenders.
- I'm afraid that I will say something wrong when I talk to blank transgenders.
Examples
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Some commentators in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community have welcomed him as an ally.
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This is not how transgender people talk about their transition at all.
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More seriously, records of transgender people date back thousands of years.
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Every day one of my transgender friends goes out.
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Because I'm a very proud transgender woman.
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It's been a couple months, but I'm coming out as transgender today.
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Nobody would go through all the things that transgender people have to go through just to succeed in sports.
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Ben was also one of the first prominent transgender scientists in this country.
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This is a key, a landmark ruling for gay and transgender individuals.
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More seriously, records of transgender people date back thousands of years.
Synonyms
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7.2
A person who was born one sex but lives as a different gender
A person who feels they are the opposite sex and may have medical treatment to change their body
Surface Forms
Morphology
transgender = transgender (transparent) = trans + gender
The noun is a straightforward substantivization of the transparent adjective 'transgender'.
Etymology
Transgender comes from the prefix trans- meaning 'across' or 'on the other side', as in transport or transfer, and the word gender. So a transgender person is someone whose gender is different from the sex they were given at birth.