transgender

English

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Etymology

From trans- +‎ gender.

Pronunciation

Adjective

transgender (comparative more transgender, superlative most transgender)

  1. (narrowly, of a person) Having changed gender identity from male to female, or from female to male. (Compare transsexual.)
    • 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.
  2. (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. (Compare transsexual, transvestite and genderqueer.)
    • 1992, Maximum rocknroll, number 109‎: 
      I think the new punk rockers are going to be more androgynous, more bisexual, more transgender, more ethnically diverse and less willing to take shit than ...
    • 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

Antonyms

Translations

not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles

Noun

transgender (usually uncountable; plural transgenders)

  1. (now rare) Transgenderism.
  2. (sometimes considered offensive) 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 word as a noun.

Translations

a transgender person

Verb

transgender (third-person singular simple present transgenders, present participle transgendering, simple past and past participle transgendered)

  1. To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of.

Related terms

See also

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Afrikaans

Adjective

transgender

  1. transgender
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Dutch

Etymology

From English transgender. See also gender.

Adjective

transgender (invariable, not comparable)

  1. transgender

See also

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