transgenderal

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
2. Proto-Indo-European*térh₂t
3. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂ónts
4. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂n̥ts
5. Proto-Italic*trāns
6. Proto-Italic*trāns-
7. Latintrans-
8. Englishtrans-
9. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
10. Proto-Indo-European*séks-u-s
11. Proto-Italic*seksus
12. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
13. Proto-Indo-European*sékh₁yeti
14. Proto-Italic*sekaō
15. Latinsecō
16. Latinsecāre?
17. Latinsexus
18. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
19. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
20. Latinsexuālis
21. Englishsexual
22. Englishtranssexual
23. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
24. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
25. Proto-Italic*genos
26. Latingenus
27. Old Frenchgendre
28. Middle Englishgendre
29. Englishgender
30. English todaytransgenderal

Blend of transsexual + gender. Coined by American transgender activist Virginia Prince in 1969 in order to distinguish between transgender people who have undergone medical treatment to change their sex and those who have not (see first quotation).

First known use, by meaning

• from late 1960s A transgender person.
• from late 1960s Of a person, transgender (having gender which is different from one's assigned sex).