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transsex

transsex verb: to transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.).

Verb

transsex (third-person singular simple present transsexes, present participle transsexing, simple past and past participle transsexed)

  1. (intransitive) To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.)
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex.
    • Many intersexuals, however, are surgically assigned as male or female, and for some that assignment causes such disharmony between body and psyche that the subject then transsexes in adulthood.2007, Catherine Harper, Intersex, →ISBN, page 11
  2. (transitive) To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.
    • There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.2009, Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti, Psychotherapist Revealed, →ISBN, page 184
    • Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.2009, Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, →ISBN, page 136

Adjective

transsex (not comparable)

  1. Transsexual.
    • New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights, →ISBN, page 65
    Synonyms:
    transsexual

Noun

transsex (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Transsexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare transgender.)
    • Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, →ISBN, page 41

Synonyms of transsex

Forms of transsex

third-person singular presenttranssexes
present participletranssexing
past participletranssexed
pasttranssexed

Origin of transsex

From trans- + sex.

Words that rhyme with transsex

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Questions about transsex

What does transsex mean?
Transsex means to transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.).
What part of speech is transsex?
Transsex can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
What is the past tense of transsex?
The past tense of transsex is transsexed.

Words near transsex in the dictionary

  1. transsemiotic
  2. transsensual
  3. transseptal
  4. transseptally
  5. transseries
  6. transsex
  7. transsexed
  8. transsexes
  9. transsexing
  10. transsexual
  11. transsexualism

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