Sekirov Dictionary

transsex

verb 2
adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

verb2

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To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.)
- 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
•
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

adjective1

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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

noun1

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(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

forms

transsexed · transsexing · transsexes

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