transsexual
/tranzˈsɛkʃʊəl
/ /transˈsɛkʃʊəl /(also transexual)
noun
1A person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex: a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual...
- So transsexuals, although born into one gender, will identify emotionally and psychologically with the other.
- She asserts that transgender nondiscrimination laws being passed throughout the country cover only transsexuals and not other transgender or gender-nonconforming people.
- At the same time, the experiences of transgenders and transsexuals can offer much to the debates over utilizing, reforming, or doing away with sexual orientation categories.
1.1A person who has undergone treatment in order to acquire the physical characteristics of the opposite sex.
adjective
Relating to a transsexual person: transsexual fantasies...
- The relationship between mental health professionals and their transgender / transsexual clients has a long and complicated history - one that has been often characterized in negative terms.
- I knew I couldn't possibly do justice to the subject from a transgendered or transsexual perspective.
- This bill is obviously a clear example of an expression of malice and prejudice against gay, lesbian, transgender, and transsexual people.
Derivatives
transsexualism
- There is a stigma that transsexualism is a lifestyle choice.
- So much has changed in the treatment of transsexualism.
- I am also taking pains to distinguish crossdressing from transsexualism.
transsexuality
- My feminism includes heterosexuality - as well as homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality / transgenderism.
- We want to demystify transsexuality and discuss people's experiences, from workplace issues and beyond.
- Conundrum is an account of her transsexuality, her happy marriage as a man, and her journey towards and after the surgery that enabled her to become a woman.