transgender

[ trans-jen-der, �ٰ��Գ�‑ ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

noting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond to that person’s sex assigned at birth: She identifies as transgender.
The organization supports transgender rights.
She identifies as transgender.
noting or relating to a person who does not conform to societal gender norms or roles.

noun

Usually Offensive. a person who is transgender.

transgender

/ ˌ�ٰ�æ�Գ�ˈ��ɛ�Ի�ə /

adjective

of or relating to a person who wants to belong to the opposite sex

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Sensitive Note

The term transgender has largely replaced the older term transsexual, which is now considered outdated, though some people within the community continue to identify with the word transsexual, especially older people. Transgender is a less clinical term, referring more to gender identity and gender expression than to physical sex characteristics or sexual orientation. It is also a more general and inclusive term: a transgender person may be nonbinary, gender-fluid, genderqueer, third gender, etc. Use of transgender as a noun (One of my colleagues is a transgender ) is declining and is usually taken as offensive. And many people object to the adjectival variant transgendered (One of my colleagues is transgendered ) because the –e�� suffix seems to imply that something happened to make the person transgender. trans, transsexual.

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Derived Forms

ˌ�ٰ��Բ�ˈ��Ի��, adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of transgender¹

First recorded in 1970–75; trans- none + gender ¹none

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Example Sentences

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Los Angeles police detectives are asking for the public’s help locating several suspects who have been linked to repeated hate crimes against a transgender woman in the city’s Westlake neighborhood.

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The English Football Association is "carefully reviewing" the decision made just weeks ago to allow transgender women to continue playing in women's football.

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Milo Todd, a Lambda literary fellow and creative writing teacher, centers his first novel on an earlier erasure, largely hidden within a bigger story: Hitler’s attempt to eradicate the transgender people of 1930s Germany.

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Judges have paused several of those policies as a result of the litigation — including the ban on transgender service members, which Trump has now asked the Supreme Court to take up.

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The current policy allows transgender women to compete in their affirmed gender category on a case-by-case basis, with testosterone levels also taken into account.

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