transgender
noting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond to that person’s sex assigned at birth: The organization supports transgender rights. She identifies as transgender.
noting or relating to a person who does not conform to societal gender norms or roles.
Usually Offensive. a person who is transgender.: See Usage note at the current entry
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Origin of transgender
1- Also trans .
usage note For transgender
Use of transgender as a noun (One of my colleagues is a transgender ) is declining and is usually taken as offensive. And many people object to the adjectival variant transgendered (One of my colleagues is transgendered ) because the –ed suffix seems to imply that something happened to make the person transgender. See also trans, transsexual.
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How to use transgender in a sentence
We are sad, but we are also angry and not powerless because we will fight to ensure that no other transgender woman has to suffer the agony that you suffered and that deprived you of your hopeful smile.
Tijuana authorities criticized over handling of transgender woman’s murder | Michael K. Lavers | September 17, 2020 | Washington BladePut differently, the Constitution does not require Idaho to provide the special treatment Plaintiffs request, under which biological males are allowed to compete against biological females if and only if the biological males are transgender.
How the Trump administration is getting around Bostock to allow anti-trans discrimination | Chris Johnson | September 16, 2020 | Washington BladeThe Torch Awards recognize achievements and honor individuals whose work has impacted the lives of transgender and gender nonconforming people across the nation.
D.C. fall calendar filled with virtual events | Steph Purifoy | September 16, 2020 | Washington BladeYoung transgender actor Evie Macdonald stars as Hannah Bradford who is attending school for the first time as a girl and finding the courage to live as her most authentic self.
Fall TV season brings handful of queer shows | Brian T. Carney | September 16, 2020 | Washington BladeThis series, which began in May, is designed to help employ transgender people, who statistically face a higher rate of unemployment than anyone else is the LGBTQ community due to workplace discrimination.
He loves the fact that, like on Grindr, users can identify as transgender.
He identifies as transgender on Scruff but not always on Grindr.
Your death is a tragic bookend to a year touted as the “transgender tipping point.”
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen | Parker Molloy | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThrough Weirich, she also met her wife Alice Levine, also a transgender woman.
And as bad as it might be for gay or lesbian people, the discrimination is markedly worse for transgender people.
State of LGBT Rights: Married on Sunday, but Fired on Monday | Gene Robinson | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for transgender
/ (ˌtrænzˈdʒɛndə) /
of or relating to a person who wants to belong to the opposite sex
Derived forms of transgender
- transgendered, adjective
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