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UK
/tɹænsˈɛkʃuːəl/
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[ US /tɹænˈsɛkʃjuəɫ/ ]
[ US /tɹænˈsɛkʃjuəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex
- a person who has undergone a sex change operation
ADJECTIVE
- identifying with the opposite gender from the one that one is born with
How To Use transsexual In A Sentence
- Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren. TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
- Transsexuality, also termed "Gender Dysphoria" is now reaching the point of being reasonably well understood, though many myths and general foolishness about the subject still abound.
- It reaffirms my belief that the gay mainstream has no interest in the reality of the transsexual experience, despite the fact that many transsexuals have come from your ranks.
- Such research into the genetics of gender identity is inevitably controversial — especially given the dark history of the eugenics movement, which viewed conditions such as transsexualism as 'diseases'. Brain development: The most important sexual organ
- The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male: Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
- For example, queer theorists usually argue that one of the advantages of the term ˜queer™ is that it thereby includes transsexuals, sado-masochists, and other marginalized sexualities. Homosexuality
- Furthermore, by maintaining the illusion that gender dysphoria is incredibly rare, gender-repartists such as Zucker can assure parents that it’s extremely unlikely their gender-variant child will become “transsexual” and suggest that all the child needs is some minor gender-repairs. APA Task Force Report underreports the prevalence of gender identity disorder
- I am also taking pains to distinguish crossdressing from transsexualism.
- In the early cases, courts routinely rejected the argument that discrimination against transsexuals is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII, just as they had rejected the notion of transsexualism as a protected class under the statute. FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
- Furthermore , if males do mate with transsexual individuals, they deliver relatively few sperm to them.