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trans-gender

trans-gender adjective: dated spelling of transgender.

Adjective

trans-gender (comparative more trans-gender, superlative most trans-gender)

  1. Dated spelling of transgender.
    • Christine Jorgensen, the world's first highly publicized transsexual – or "trans-gender" patient – never planned to be famous because of her surgery.1979 May 3, Pierre Bowman, “Back in showbiz Christine Jorgensen”, in George Chaplin, editor, The Honolulu Advertiser (People Report Section), Honolulu, Hi.: Thurston Twigg-Smith, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...

Noun

trans-gender (plural trans-genders)

  1. Dated spelling of transgender.
    • In spite of not "rootin' and tootin'" as a trans-gender case, in recent years [Christine] Jorgensen has been a staple on the college lecture circuit, speaking – of course – about trans-gender and herself.1979 May 3, Pierre Bowman, “Back in showbiz Christine Jorgensen”, in George Chaplin, editor, The Honolulu Advertiser (People Report Section), Honolulu, Hi.: Thurston Twigg-Smith, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
    • "If you understand trans-genders," she [Christine Jorgensen] says, choosing the word she prefers to transsexuals, "then you understand that gender is different than sexual preference. It doesn't have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity." Jorgensen says she knows of some...1979 September 23, Jerry Parker, “A woman with no regrets”, in Stanley Green, editor, LI: Newsday’s Magazine for Long Island, Suffolk edition, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18...

Forms of trans-gender

Adjective
comparativemore trans-gender
superlativemost trans-gender
Noun
pluraltrans-genders

Questions about trans-gender

What does trans-gender mean?
Trans-gender means dated spelling of transgender.
What part of speech is trans-gender?
Trans-gender can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near trans-gender in the dictionary

  1. trans-exclusionary
  2. trans-fat
  3. trans-fats
  4. trans-female
  5. trans-friendly
  6. trans-gender
  7. trans-genders
  8. trans-Golgi network
  9. trans-Golgi networks
  10. Trans-Himalayan
  11. trans-hydrogenation

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