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Transsexed vs Transsexes - What's the difference?

transsexed | transsexes |

As verbs the difference between transsexed and transsexes

is that transsexed is (transsex) while transsexes is (transsex).

As an adjective transsexed

is having undergone sex reassignment surgery.

transsexed

English

Alternative forms

* transexed

Adjective

(-)
  • Having undergone sex reassignment surgery.
  • * 2007 , Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (ISBN 074563883X), page 42:
    • Moreover, some transsexual people who do complete a sex-change come to see themselves as transsexed (Stone 1991) and hence as necessarily ambiguous in gender as well.

    Related terms

    * transsexual

    Verb

    (head)
  • (transsex)

    • transsexes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (transsex)

    • transsex

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery).
  • * (seeCites)
  • * 2007 , Catherine Harper, Intersex (ISBN 1845201833), page 11:
    • Many intersexuals, however, are surgically assigned as male or female, and for some that assignment causes such disharmony between body and psyche that the subject then transsexes in adulthood.
  • To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.
  • * 2009 , Andrea Bloomgarden, ?Rosemary B. Mennuti, Psychotherapist Revealed (ISBN 0203893859), page 184:
    • There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.
  • * 2009 , Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (ISBN 3110212536), page 136:
    • Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Transsexual.
  • * 2006 , Paisley Currah, ?Richard M. Juang, ?Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights (ISBN 0816643121), page 65:
    • New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.

    Synonyms

    * transsexual (more common)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Transsexuality]], transsexualism; the state of being transsexual.
  • * 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.

    See also

    * (m) * (m)