transgender Adjective
( en adjective)
(narrowly, of a person) Having a gender identity (self-image) which is the opposite of one's physical sex: being physically male but identifying as female, or vice versa.
* 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.
(broadly, of a person) 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.
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* 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).
Synonyms
* TG (abbreviated form)
Antonyms
* cisgender
Related terms
* bigender
* agender
* third gender
* genderqueer
* genderfluid
* transsex
* transsexual
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Noun
( en-noun)
* 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.
A transgender person.
* 2005 , Walter Bockting & Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention , p. 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.
* 2006 , Jayne Caudwell, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/theory , p. 122:
- Individual transgenders could compete in any division; however, transgender teams could not play against biological women's teams.
Usage notes
* See the usage note at transsexual regarding the use of this type of word as a noun.
Hypernyms
*LGBT
Coordinate terms
* two-spirit, berdache
* hijra
Verb
( en verb)
(lb) To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of.
* 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.
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- 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.
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Related terms
* trans
* transy
* transgendered
* transgenderist
* transgenderism
* transman, transperson, transwoman
* transfemale, transmale
* transphobia
See also
* LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA
* TS
* crossdress
* drag
* SRS
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cissexual English
Adjective
(-)
(LGBT, of a person) Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.
Antonyms
* transsexual
Related terms
* cis
* cisgender
* cisman, cisperson, ciswoman; cisfemale, cismale
* asexual, intersexual
See also
* transgender
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