retransition
Syllables: de·tran·si·tionUK/ˌɹiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən//ˌɹi.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
retransition noun: another transition.
Noun
retransition (plural retransitions)
- Another transition.
- The content of the development is harder to define; it may include new material, but typically involves development of motives and themes from the exposition leading to a retransition.2012, David Beach, Ryan McClelland, Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 196
Verb
retransition (third-person singular simple present retransitions, present participle retransitioning, simple past and past participle retransitioned)
- To undergo another transition.
- With apologies to my friends who have detransitioned or retransitioned if I get this wrong, this is what I've learned.2018, CN Lester, Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us, unnumbered page
- One reason for encouraging detransitioners to go through counselling and avoid rushing into further surgery is that many go on to retransition again in the future.2019, Jennie Kermode, Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses: A Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision, page 72
- To return to one's birth-assigned gender after having undergone gender reassignment; to detransition.
- Finally, some who embrace the psychological paradigm critique transition-affirmative approaches by pointing to studies showing that a statistically significant number of people who have undergone transition – one 2009 study suggests up to 8 percent – have later expressed regrets, with some even...2019, Paul Rhodes Eddy, James K. Beilby, “Understanding Transgender Experiences and Identities: An Introduction”, in Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views, unnumbered page
- If a socially transitioned child desists and later comes to identify with their birth-assigned gender, the child must then retransition to that gender, which could be difficult and pose risks for the child at that older age.2019, Shervin Shandianloo, Richard R. Pleak, “Mental Health Issues in Caring for the Transgender Population”, in Leonid Poretsky, Wylie C. Hembree, editors, Transgender Medicine: A Multidisciplinary...
Examples of retransition in a sentence
- Included in this group were 4 individuals (1.3% of the total sample) who retransitioned twice (to nonbinary then back to binary transgender).Kristina R. Olson, Lily Durwood, Rachel Horton, Natalie M. Gallagher, Aaron Devor (2022), “Gender Identity 5 Years After Social...
- In some cases, individuals may “detransition” (or retransition) to their assigned/biological gender, further complicating identity and family relationships.2022, Denise Ann Bodman, Bethany Bustamante Van Vleet, Randal D. Day, Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties...
Forms of retransition
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | retransitions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | retransitions |
| present participle | retransitioning |
| past participle | retransitioned |
| past | retransitioned |
Origin of retransition
From re- + transition.
Words formed from retransition
Words that rhyme with retransition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about retransition
- What does retransition mean?
- Retransition means another transition.
- How do you use retransition in a sentence?
- Included in this group were 4 individuals (1.3% of the total sample) who retransitioned twice (to nonbinary then back to binary transgender).
- What part of speech is retransition?
- Retransition can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce retransition?
- Retransition is pronounced /ˌɹiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of retransition?
- The plural of retransition is retransitions.
Words near retransition in the dictionary
Source and license
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