transgendered

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English

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Etymology

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From trans- +‎ gendered (adjective).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə(ɹ)d/, /tɹæns-/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹd/, /tɹæn(t)s-/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)d
  • Hyphenation: trans‧gen‧der‧ed

Adjective

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transgendered (comparative more transgendered, superlative most transgendered)

  1. (now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Transgender; denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
    • 1970 April 26, “Raquel Welch”, in TV Guide‎[2], archived from the original on 2012-06-04‎[3]:
      RAQUEL WELCH (left), moviedom's sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal's transgendered "Myra Breckinridge," will be featured in her first television special at 8 p.m. today on CBS.

Usage notes

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  • Until about 2000, transgendered was common both inside and outside transgender communities (Julia Serano notes its use in "classic" trans-related books such as Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw and Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation and compares it to the accepted term gendered),[1] but the term transgender has become more common and is preferred by many transgender people. Although some still accept transgendered,[2] dictionaries, style guides, and other authorities frequently proscribe it, often comparing its use to the hypothetical use of lesbianed in place of lesbian.[3][4][5][6]

Noun

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transgendered (plural transgendereds)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, now usually offensive) A transgender person.
    • 2002, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report, page 384:
      In determining how to accommodate the employee, both attorneys said it is important to take your "cue" from the employee, but also to examine what medical criteria says about transgendereds.
    • 2008, Madeleine Cousineau, Introducing Sociology: A Whole New World, page 156:
      In addition to ex-convicts and drug addicts, stigmas are also applied to lesbians, gays, transgendereds, and people who have been hospitalized for mental illness, even after they leave the hospital.

Usage notes

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  • See the usage notes at transgender regarding the use of this type of word as a noun.

Verb

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transgendered

  1. simple past and past participle of transgender
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References

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  1. ^ Julia Serano (2014 April 28) “A Personal History of the 'T-word' (and Some More General Reflections on Language and Activism)”, in Whipping Girl (blog), retrieved 7 February 2022:
    In the '90s and early '00s, the word "transgendered" was commonplace—one can find it in classic books like Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw and Leslie Feinberg's Trans Liberation, and I routinely used it in my early writings (e.g., my chapbooks Either/Or and Draw Blood). We routinely talk about people being "gendered," so it makes sense that one might describe someone as being "transgendered." But at some point in the mid-'00s, there were increasing complaints about "transgendered." Many of these centered on the notion that, because the word is an adjective, it is grammatically incorrect to add an "-ed" to it, or that the "-ed" implied "past tense" (although others have thoroughly debunked such claims).
  2. ^ Matt Kailey (2009 July 27) “Transgender v. Transgendered: Changing My Policy, Not My Mind”, in Matt Kailey's Tranifesto, retrieved 2022-02-07
  3. ^ GLAAD Media Reference Guide‎[1], 10th edition, GLAAD, 2016, archived from the original on 15 February 2020, page 13:
    The adjective transgender should never have an extraneous "-ed" tacked onto the end. An "-ed" suffix adds unnecessary length to the word and can cause tense confusion and grammatical errors. It also brings transgender into alignment with lesbian, gay, and bisexual. You would not say that Elton John is "gayed" or Ellen DeGeneres is "lesbianed," therefore you would not say Chaz Bono is "transgendered."
  4. ^ German Lopez (2015 February 18) “Why You Should Always Use 'Transgender' Instead of 'Transgendered'”, in Vox, retrieved 2022-02-07.
  5. ^ Dan Savage (2014 January 11) “Savage Love: Gayed, Blacked, Transgendered”, in Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida, retrieved 2022-02-07.
  6. ^ “Guardian and Observer Style Guide: T”, in The Guardian, London, 2021 May 20, retrieved 7 February 2022: “[…] use transgender […] only as an adjective: transgender person, trans person, trans woman, trans man; never "transgendered person" or "a transgender".”
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