transpopulation

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English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ population.

Noun

transpopulation (plural transpopulations)

  1. The population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.
    • 2009, Marcia Ochoa, “Latina/o Transpopulations”, in Marysol Asencio, editor, Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies, page 236:
      I am not aware of any ethnographic or historical projects whose sole focus is some aspect of a Latina/o transpopulation.
    • 2011, Christie Elan-Cane, “Fighting for legal and social recognition outside the gendered societal structure”, in Alice Purnell, Jed Bland, editors, Trans in the Twenty First Century: Concerning Gender Diversity, page 130:
      The legislation extended certain ‘rights’ to some within the wider transpopulation to the exclusion of others.
    • 2013, Michael Shankle, The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service, unnumbered page:
      Vaccination against hepatitis A and B is available. We do not know what percentage of the MTF transpopulation have received it and, in fact, how informed they are of its availability.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transpopulation.
  2. The act of altering one or more populations by the introduction of a different population or the removal of a particular subpopulation.
    • 1866, Rowland Williams, The Hebrew Prophets Translated Afresh from the Original, , volume 1, Williams and Norgate, →OCLC, page 297:
      It should be remarked, that as dynasties changed the transpopulation which made Babylon decline was frequently repeated; as under Seleucus, for the benefit of Seleucia, so under the Parthians for the benefit of Ctesiphon, under the Arabs for that of Baghdad.
    • 1963, “8436 A/CONF.15/P/97”, in The Effects of Radiation and Radioisotopes on the Life Processes: , US Atomic Energy Commission, →OCLC, page 990:
      Transpopulation of these hemopoietic and lymphopoietic tissues back to host-type tissue was induced by the intravenous injection of spleen, but not so far by lymph node, cells isologous with the host.
    • 2002, Joseph Roisman, Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, page 77:
      The significance of this area for his state's security is seen in Philip's measures to consolidate it: perhaps now his “transpopulation” policy began, whereby Macedonians proper were encouraged to move to live in areas where previously there had been a mixed stock, and perhaps even another marriage-alliance (to Phila, of the Elimiote royal house).