Transgender vs Null - What's the difference?
transgender | null |
(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:
* 2010 , Natasha Lennard, "City Room", New York Times , 7 Apr 2010:
(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:
* 2007 , Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (ISBN 074563883X), page 41
A transgender person.
* 2005 , Walter Bockting & Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention , p. 116:
* 2006 , Jayne Caudwell, Sport, Sexualities and Queer/theory , p. 122:
(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:
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A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between transgender and null
is that transgender is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective 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.As a verb transgender
is (lb) to change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of.transgender
English
(wikipedia transgender)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 .
- 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.
- 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
* cisgenderNoun
(en-noun)- 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.
- 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.
- 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
*LGBTCoordinate terms
* two-spirit, berdache * hijraVerb
(en verb)- 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.
See also
* LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA * TS * crossdress * drag * SRS * ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.