transexual

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A form of transsexual — Of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).

CommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivetransexual (comparative more transexual, superlative most transexual)

comparative more transexual · superlative most transexual

  1. alternativerareAlternative spelling of transsexual.
nountransexual (plural transexuals)

plural transexuals

  1. alternativerareAlternative spelling of transsexual.
    1 more example

    As an afterthought, I think I might be entitled to point out that I (and others in the same position) who have had electrolysis, taken hormones and live as a woman full time am not a transexual, are wrong. While all of these things are done by those who ARE transexuals, it does not follow that all who do them are transexuals. This is the same false logic that society follows when it in effect says (wrongly in both cases) that homosexuals wear dresses and make up, therefore all males who wear dresses and make up are homosexuals. I’m sure most of you have been resenting that implication for as long as you’ve been TVs. Naturally I resent the assumption that I am a TS for the same reason—the logic is false. I, at least, know the difference between sex and gender and have simply elected to change the latter and not the former. If a word is necessary, I should be termed a “transgenderal.”

    1969 December 28, Virginia Prince, “Change of Sex or Gender”, in Transvestia, volume IX, number 60, Chevalier Publications, →LCCN, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2021, page 65

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna person who has undergone a sex change operation

nouna person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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