transsexual

Etymology
. Introduced to English along with by  in 1949, based on the  word  coined by  in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.

Adjective

 * 1)  Having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex (because it does not match desired sex) by undergoing medical treatment such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS), or rarely only SRS.

Usage notes

 * Although some authors distinguish transsexual (pertaining to physical sex) and transgender (pertaining to gender), transgender is generally taken to encompass transsexual and has largely displaced it; transsexual is now often considered outdated, although some people who have undergone SRS still prefer it; compare the usage notes at transgender. Neither term should be confused with (which see for more).

Synonyms

 * , transsexed

Descendants

 * Japanese:

Translations

 * Catalan: transexual
 * Czech: transsexuální
 * Danish: transseksuel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: transsekseca
 * Faroese: umkyndur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: transexual
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: trasghnéasach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 性別移行, 性転換
 * Maori: hinehī
 * Norman: transsexuel
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: transseksuell
 * Nynorsk: transseksuell
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) A transsexual person.
 * , Myra Love, Reality’s Friends, excerpted in Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (editors), Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, SUNY Press (1999), ISBN 978-0-7914-3965-4, page 107:
 * He claimed that they had this wonderful and loving relationship in which the transsexual-to-be had felt that his suitor truly loved him the way he was and didn’t want him to have the surgery,
 * 1) * 2003 December 9, Kitty Fine, “How to Tell If Your Fella Wants to Be a Woman!”, in Weekly World News, ISSN 0199-574X, page 14:
 * Hundreds of women every year are taken completely by surprise when their husbands announce they want to undergo sex-change surgery — and the news is even more shocking when comes, as it often does, from a burly he-man who’d given no clue to his inner girl. ¶ But the signs are definitely there if your husband is dreaming of becoming a transsexual, says a new study by a top sexologist.
 * , anonymous, “My Husband’s Secret”, in Grandma Joy, Grandma Joy's Hope for Hurting Women: Healing the Wounds of the Past and Gaining Hope for the Future, Destiny Image Publishers (2006), ISBN 978-0-7684-2351-8, page 133:
 * He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.
 * He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.

Usage notes

 * See the usage note at transgender regarding the use of this type of word as a noun.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُتَحَوِّل جِنْسِيّ, مُتَحَوِّلَة جِنْسِيَّة
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * Galician: transexual
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: trasghnéasach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 性転換者; 性同一性障害者, 性別移行者
 * Korean: :
 * Maori: hinehī, irawhiti
 * Norman: transsexuel, transsexuelle
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Italian:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a  person

Adjective

 * 1) transsexual

Noun

 * 1) transsexual

Etymology
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