transsexual
Syllables: trans·sex·ual/tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl//ˌtɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/
transsexual adjective: of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
Adjective
transsexual (comparative more transsexual, superlative most transsexual)
- Of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
- Of or relating to such a change.
- "'I'm in the process of going through surgery, a transsexual operation.'" She [Sharon Davis] continued, "He [my partner] said that made no difference to him. And when he said that, just like that, I just stopped crying. I was so happy." They've been together ever since.1983 October 10, “Jet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 31
- Stormy […] […] returned from Morocco, where she'd had transsexual surgery.2011 January 19, Aleshia Brevard, Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 116
Noun
transsexual (plural transsexuals)
- A transsexual person.
- Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.1992 May 8, Tamara Severns, “Open Letter To Michigan Festival Organizers”, in Gay Community News, page 4
- When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.1995, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
- Synonyms:
- TS, trans person
transsexual meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Persian
transsexual in Tamil
- அலி, ஒன்பது, அரவாணி
transsexual in Arabic
- person whose gender identity did not match their birth sex, and who therefore is changing or has changed sex
- مُتَحَوِّل جِنْسِيّ mutaḥawwil jinsiyy, مُتَحَوِّلَة جِنْسِيَّة
transsexual in Persian
- being a transsexual
- دوجنسه do-jense
- person whose gender identity did not match their birth sex, and who therefore is changing or has changed sex
- دوجنسه do-jense
Examples of transsexual in a sentence
- Before the Iranian Revolution, transsexual treatments were tacitly allowed, but Molkara wanted a ruling that provided clerical legitimacy.2016 November 14, Dana Jennett Bevan Ph.D., Being Transgender: What You Should Know, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
- 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, […]a. 1998, Myra Love, Reality’s Friends, excerpted in Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (editors), Cultural Activisms: Poetic...
- He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.a. 2006, anonymous, “My Husband’s Secret”, in Grandma Joy, Grandma Joy's Hope for Hurting Women: Healing the Wounds of the Past and Gaining...
- Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever.2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:
Synonyms of transsexual
Forms of transsexual
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more transsexual |
| superlative | most transsexual |
| alternative form (rare) | transexual |
| Noun | |
| plural | transsexuals |
Origin of transsexual
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.
Words formed from transsexual
Words that rhyme with transsexual
- bisexual
- sexual
- ambisexual
- androsexual
- heterosexual
- homosexual
- omnisexual
- polysexual
- technosexual
- abrosexual
- aegosexual
- ammosexual
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Questions about transsexual
- What does transsexual mean?
- Transsexual means of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
- What is transsexual in Tamil?
- Transsexual in Tamil is அலி, ஒன்பது, அரவாணி. See Transsexual meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use transsexual in a sentence?
- Before the Iranian Revolution, transsexual treatments were tacitly allowed, but Molkara wanted a ruling that provided clerical legitimacy.
- What part of speech is transsexual?
- Transsexual can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce transsexual?
- Transsexual is pronounced /tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/ (UK).
Words near transsexual in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transsexual (page history and authors); transsexual (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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