gender transition

English

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Noun

gender transition (countable and uncountable, plural gender transitions)

1. (transgender) Process or act of changing one's gender role or physical characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
   • 1999, Spencer Bergstedt, “Book Reviews”, in Matthew S. Carlos, Mykael Hawley, editors, Transgender Tapestry, Waltham, Mass.: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, page 83, column 1:

     This book is intended to be a guide for MtF and FtM Transsexuals in managing the legal aspects of gender transition.

Hyponyms

• legal transition
• medical transition
• social transition

Related terms

• detransition
• retransition

Translations

process of affirming one's gender identity

• Afrikaans: gendertransisie
• Albanian: tranzicioni gjinor
• Basque: genero-trantsizio
• Catalan: transició de gènere f
• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 性別過渡／性别过渡
• French: transition de genre (fr)
• Hungarian: tranzíció
• Italian: transizione di genere
• Georgian: გენდერული ტრანზიცია (genderuli ṭranzicia)
• Japanese: 性別移行
• Polish: tranzycja płciowa
• Portuguese: transição de género (Portugal), transição de gênero (Brazil)
• Sardinian: transitzione de gènere
• Slovene: spolna tranzicija
• Spanish: transición de género f
• Swedish: transition (sv)
• Russian: трансгендерный переход (ru) (transgendernyj perexod)
• Ukrainian: гендерний перехід (hendernyj perexid)
• Welsh: trawsnewid rhywedd

References

• “gender transition”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Glossary of Terms: Transgender”, in GLAAD, 2024 August 26 (last accessed)