transgenderist
transgenderist noun: a transgender person.
Noun
transgenderist (plural transgenderists)
- A transgender person.
- After having lived much of our lives according to a socially accepted prescription, many of us come to realize that we have not been true to ourselves. As full-time or part-time transgenderists, we feel the need to improve the quality of life for ourselves by creating an environment around us which...1979, Nancy, “Feather Your Own Nest”, in Transvestia, volume XVII, number 98, Chevalier Publications, →LCCN, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2023, page 36
- Perhaps the most surprising and controversial issue to emerge was that of “transpeople." Transpeople, as defined by the highly articulate Houston based Transpeople Caucus are “transexuals, transgenderists, transvestites, drag queens, and female impersonators." Phyllis Frye, a transgenderist from...1979 September/October, “The March Is On!”, in The Lesbian Tide, volume 9, number 2, Los Angeles: Tide Publications, page 12, column 3
Examples of transgenderist in a sentence
- […] in her cross-dressed transgenderist the assured knowableness of the universal subject is cast into doubt as she exposes the far from secure boundaries of maleness.2010, Carole Jones, Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction, 1979-1999:
- Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:
Forms of transgenderist
| plural | transgenderists |
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Origin of transgenderist
From transgender + -ist.
Questions about transgenderist
- What does transgenderist mean?
- Transgenderist means a transgender person.
- How do you use transgenderist in a sentence?
- […] in her cross-dressed transgenderist the assured knowableness of the universal subject is cast into doubt as she exposes the far from secure boundaries of maleness.
- What part of speech is transgenderist?
- Transgenderist is a noun.
- What is the plural of transgenderist?
- The plural of transgenderist is transgenderists.
Words near transgenderist in the dictionary
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