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Transgender vs Binary - What's the difference?

transgender | binary |

As adjectives the difference between transgender and binary

is that transgender is (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 while binary is being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.

As nouns the difference between transgender and binary

is that transgender is while binary is (mathematics|computing|uncountable) the bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits.

As a verb transgender

is (lb) to change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of.

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

    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.
    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.
  • * (seeCites)
  • See also

    * LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA * TS * crossdress * drag * SRS * ----

    binary

    English

    (wikipedia binary)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
  • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary . And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
    Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.
  • (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
  • (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
  • Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
  • Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.
    A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.
  • (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.
  • Division of reals is a binary operation.
  • (computing) Of data, consisting coded values not interpretable as plain or ASCII text.
  • He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.

    Synonyms

    * dyadic * (logic of binary states) Boolean * (of calculations with binary numbers)

    Antonyms

    * (arbitrary data) ASCII, text

    Derived terms

    * binary antonym * binary arithmetic * binary code * binary compound * binary digit * binary distribution * binary fission * binary function * binary logarithm * binary name * binary noun * binary number * binary numeral system * binary operation * binary operator * binary quasar * binary relation * binary star * binary star system * binary system * binary tree * contact binary * gender binary

    See also

    * unary * ternary

    Noun

    (binaries) (wikipedia binary)
  • (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits .
  • (computing) An executable computer file.
  • (astronomy) A star system consisting of only two stars.
  • Synonyms

    * * (system of two stars) binary star, double star

    Derived terms

    * binary-coded decimal * visual binary * X-ray binary

    See also

    * -ary * decimal * hexadecimal * octal

    Anagrams

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