transgender
IPA: trˈænzdʒˈɛndɝ
noun
- (countable, now often offensive) A transgender person.
- (uncountable, rare) Transgenderism; the state of being transgender. (Compare transsex.)
verb
- (uncommon) To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of. (Compare transsex.)
adjective
- (broadly) Having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex, or pertaining to a person who does (a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, e.g. agender, bigender, or third-gender).
- (narrowly; see usage notes) Having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (i.e., not including non-binary).
- (loosely) Transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
- (of a space) Intended primarily for transgender people.
- (of a space) Available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.
- Crossgender.
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Examples of "transgender" in Sentences
- Pregnancy of transgender people.
- Struggle with being transgender.
- It is not just transgendered people.
- Legalization of transgender marriage.
- There are many transgendered teachers.
- Gender variant and transgender people.
- Anthropy is a male to female transgender.
- Bisexual is correct here but not transgender.
- It falls under the umbrella of the transgender spectrum.
- But Clinton did not use the term transgender in his version.
- Transgender sexuality is the sexuality of transgender people.
- PINSKY: Does the term transgender trouble you in some way or?
- Now 70, Richards rejects the term transgender along with all the fluidity it conveys.
- These attacks result in transgender citizens being forced out of their neighborhoods.
- Never mind that the word "transgender" never appears in the article, nor does it discuss the issue of "acceptance."
- As a young boy she had not yet learned the term transgender, which describes a person whose emotional identity does not conform to his or her birth gender.
- She also notes that even the term transgender contains meanings which are "still under construction," suggesting an intellectual movement of savvy terminology which continues to evolve.
- More recently, the term transgender can also mean someone who considers that they fall "between" genders, not identifying strictly to one gender or the other, identifying themselves as neither fully male, nor female.
- BRENDA WADE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Jane, before we even get to those changes, there ` s a lot of emotional upset for somebody who has what we call transgender dysphoria (ph), which is a lot of the emotional disturbance or even depression.