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Etymology
From transsexual + -ize.
Verb
transsexualize (third-person singular simple present transsexualizes, present participle transsexualizing, simple past and past participle transsexualized)
- (transitive, uncommon) To make transsexual.
1996, Christine Froula, Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce, →ISBN, page 217:[…] which he liked to compare to an archduchess's urine, fetishizing it as a kind of elixir of femaleness by which he can transsexualize himself […]
- (uncommon) To cause (something such as an anthropomorphized natural phenomenon, like a flood) to have the opposite sex or gender.
2009, Cecelia Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places, →ISBN, page 204:these embodied female waters are actually present in full flood despite [...] the embrace of the English translation of "Father of Waters" [...]. This is to say that waters that are turbulent and torrential are not always transsexualized as males via the rhetorical strategies of birth (The Columbiad) or metamorphosis (The Johnstown Flood). They are also at times imaged as female.
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