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English
Etymology
From trans- + sex.
Verb
transsex (third-person singular simple present transsexes, present participle transsexing, simple past and past participle transsexed)
- (intransitive) To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex.
2007, Catherine Harper, Intersex, →ISBN, page 11: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.
- (transitive) To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.
2009, Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti, Psychotherapist Revealed, →ISBN, page 184:There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.
2009, Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, →ISBN, page 136:Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.
Adjective
transsex (not comparable)
- Transsexual.
2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights, →ISBN, page 65:New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.
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Noun
transsex (uncountable)
- (rare) Transsexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare transgender.)
2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, →ISBN, page 41: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.
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