transgender
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
transgender (not comparable)
- (narrowly) Having a gender (identity) which is different from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male at birth but having a female or non-binary gender or vice versa; or, pertaining to such people. (Compare transsexual, and the following sense.)
- 2010, Jessica Green, "I'm sorry, I'm not lesbian", The Guardian, 3 Mar 2010:
- One head of a small gay charity visibly flinched when I mentioned my boyfriend and has been cold towards me ever since. I've even caught someone staring down my top to see if I'm transgender.
- 2010, Natasha Lennard, "City Room", New York Times, 7 Apr 2010:
- But the inclusion of the word “trannie” — a pejorative, in some circles — in the title, and the film’s parodic representation of transgender women, has offended many people.
- 2010, Jessica Green, "I'm sorry, I'm not lesbian", The Guardian, 3 Mar 2010:
- (broadly) Not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female; having changed gender identity from male to female or female to male, or identifying with elements of both, or having some other gender identity; or, pertaining to such people. (Compare genderqueer, transsexual.)
- 1998, John Cloud, "Trans across America", Time, 20 Feb 1998:
- Their first step was to reclaim the power to name themselves: transgender is now the term most widely used, and it encompasses everyone from cross-dressers (those who dress in clothes of the opposite sex) to transsexuals (those who surgically "correct" their genitals to match their "real" gender).
- 1998, John Cloud, "Trans across America", Time, 20 Feb 1998:
- (of a space) Intended primarily for transgender people.
- 2001, Walter O. Bockting, Sheila Kirk, Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care, page 46:
- In Boston, no AIDS prevention messages are posted at the primary drag queen and transgender bar.
- 2001, Walter O. Bockting, Sheila Kirk, Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care, page 46:
- (of a space) Available for use by transgender people (in addition to non-transgender people).
- 2002 October 2, Boston Globe, Group wants transgender bathrooms for UMASS, quoted in 2010, Sheila L. Cavanagh, Queering Bathrooms ISBN 1442699973
- 2010, Harvey Molotch, Laura Noren, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, page 199:
- Why the sudden outcry for transgender bathrooms?
- 2013, William Keith, Christian O. Lundberg, Public Speaking: Choice and Responsibility:
- In contrast, in a democratic conversation or dialogue, the speaker would begin by identifying the larger public issues that connect to the availability of transgender bathrooms: equality, civil rights, […]
- TG (abbreviated form)
- trans (abbreviated form)
- transgendered (uncommon)
- French: transgenre
- German: transgender, trans, trans*, transgeschlechtlich
- Portuguese: transgénero (Portugal), transgênero (Brazil)
- Russian: трансге́ндерный
- Spanish: transgénero, transgénera
transgender (uncountable)
- (countable, now, often, offensive) A transgender person.
- 2005, Walter Bockting & Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention, page 116:
- In a patriarchal society in which machismo rules, MTF transgenders represent a challenge to traditional masculinity due to their renouncing of the male position of social power.
- 2015, Helen Davies, Transgender woman forced to move house after death threats and knife in her front door (in The Liverpool Echo)
- Nat spent years being victimised as a male to female transgender but was too scared to report it.
- 2005, Walter Bockting & Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention, page 116:
- (uncountable, rare) Transgenderism; the state of being transgender. (Compare transsex.)
- 2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy ISBN 074563883X, page 41
- 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.
- 2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy ISBN 074563883X, page 41
- French: transgenre
- German: Trans-Person
- Italian: transgender
- Portuguese: transgénero (Portugal), transgênero (Brazil)
- Russian: трансге́ндер
- Spanish: transgénero, transgénera
transgender (transgenders, present participle transgendering; past and past participle transgendered)
- (uncommon) To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of. (Compare transsex.)
- 2005, Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, Jyl J. Josephson, Gender and American Politics ISBN 0765631563, pages 15 and 205:
- […] and one that is still dominated by male nominees, women nominees might be seen as either contributing to the regendering, or the transgendering, of the Cabinet.
- This chapter examines women secretaries-designate in terms of their contributions to regendering or transgendering a cabinet office, to a gender desegregation or integration of the cabinet.
- 2005, Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, Jyl J. Josephson, Gender and American Politics ISBN 0765631563, pages 15 and 205:
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