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English
Etymology
From trans- + Latin sexus (“sex”) + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
transexion (countable and uncountable, plural transexions)
- (obsolete, rare) Change of sex.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transexion of hares, if that be true which Cardan and other physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first […]
1950, Osiris: 1950-1936/50:[…] transexion or change from female to male, and hence "from imperfection to perfection"; the transmutation of species in closely allied animals and plants, as horses and asses, dogs and foxes, pheasants and cocks, barley and oats […]
2019 February 21, Jake Poller, Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN:Albert Engleman, 'Un cas de transposition de sexes', Revue Métapsychique, no. 27 (January-February 1954): 126-128; Albert Engleman, 'A Case of Transexion upon Viewing a Painting', American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences 9, no. 3/4
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Further reading
- “transexion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “transexion”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. "Transformation as regards sex; change of sex."