transsexual

See also: transsexuál

English

Alternative forms

• transexual (rare)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *trānts

Latin trāns

Latin trans-bor.

English trans-

Latin sexus

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin sexuālisbor.

English sexual

English transsexual

From trans- +‎ sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/, /tɹɑːnz-/, /tɹæns-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/, /ˌtɹæn(t)s-/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
• Hyphenation: trans‧sex‧ual

Adjective

transsexual (comparative more transsexual, superlative most transsexual)

1. Of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).

Usage notes

• Although some authors distinguish transsexual (pertaining to physical sex) and transgender (pertaining to gender), transgender is generally taken to encompass transsexual and has largely displaced it; transsexual is now often considered outdated, although some people who have undergone SRS still prefer it; compare the usage notes at transgender. Neither term should be confused with transvestite (which see for more).

Synonyms

• transsex (less common), transsexed (uncommon)

Derived terms

• anti-transsexual
• antitranssexual
• transsexualism
• transsexualist
• transsexuality
• transsexualness
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Descendants

• Japanese: トランスセクシャル (toransusekusharu)

Translations

being a transsexual

• Catalan: transexual
• Czech: transsexuální
• Danish: transseksuel
• Dutch: transseksueel (nl)
• Esperanto: transsekseca
• Faroese: umkyndur
• Finnish: transsukupuolinen (fi)
• French: transsexuel (fr) m, transsexuelle (fr) f
• Galician: transexual
• German: transsexuell (de)
• Greek: διαφυλικός (el) m (diafylikós), τρανσέξουαλ (el) (transéxoual)
• Irish: trasghnéasach
• Italian: transessuale (it) m
• Japanese: 性同一性障害の (ja) (せいどういつせいしょうがいの, seidōitsuseishōgai no), 性別移行の (せいべついこうの, seibetsuikō no), 性転換の (ja) (せいてんかんの, seitenkan no)
• Maori: hinehī
• Norman: transsexuel
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: transseksuell

  Nynorsk: transseksuell

• Persian: دوجنسه (fa) (do-jense)
• Polish: transseksualny (pl) m
• Portuguese: transexual (pt) m or f
• Russian: транссексуа́льный (ru) (transsɛksuálʹnyj)
• Spanish: transexual (es)
• Swedish: transsexuell (sv)

Noun

transsexual (plural transsexuals)

1. A transsexual person.
   • 1995, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar:

     When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.

   • a. 1998, Myra Love, Reality’s Friends, excerpted in Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (editors), Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, SUNY Press (1999), →ISBN, page 107:

     He claimed that they had this wonderful and loving relationship in which the transsexual-to-be had felt that his suitor truly loved him the way he was and didn’t want him to have the surgery, […]

   • 2003 December 9, Kitty Fine, “How to Tell If Your Fella Wants to Be a Woman!”, in Weekly World News, ISSN 0199-574X, page 14:

     Hundreds of women every year are taken completely by surprise when their husbands announce they want to undergo sex-change surgery — and the news is even more shocking when comes, as it often does, from a burly he-man who’d given no clue to his inner girl. ¶ But the signs are definitely there if your husband is dreaming of becoming a transsexual, says a new study by a top sexologist.

   • a. 2006, anonymous, “My Husband’s Secret”, in Grandma Joy, Grandma Joy's Hope for Hurting Women: Healing the Wounds of the Past and Gaining Hope for the Future, Destiny Image Publishers (2006), →ISBN, page 133:

     He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.

   • 2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:

     Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• TS
• trans person

Hyponyms

• trans man, trans woman

Related terms

• transsex
• transsexed
• transgender

Translations

person whose gender identity did not match his/her birth sex, and who therefore is changing or has changed sex

• Arabic: مُتَحَوِّل جِنْسِيّ m (mutaḥawwil jinsiyy), مُتَحَوِّلَة جِنْسِيَّة f (mutaḥawwila(t) jinsiyya)
• Catalan: transsexual (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變性者 / 变性者 (zh) (biànxìngzhě)

• Czech: transsexuál (cs) m
• Dutch: transseksueel (nl)
• Esperanto: transseksulo (eo)
• Finnish: transsukupuolinen (fi); transu (fi) (colloquial)
• French: transsexuel (fr) m, transsexuelle (fr) f
• Galician: transexual
• German: Transsexueller (de) m, Transsexuelle (de) f
• Greek: διαφυλικός (el) m (diafylikós), τρανσέξουαλ (el) (transéxoual)
• Hungarian: transzszexuális (hu)
• Irish: trasghnéasach m
• Italian: transessuale (it) m
• Japanese: 性転換者 (せいてんかんしゃ, seitenkansha); 性同一性障害者 (せいどういつせいしょうがいしゃ, seidōitsuseishōgaisha), 性別移行者 (せいべついこうしゃ, seibetsuikōsha)
• Korean: 성전환자 (ko) (seongjeonhwanja):
• Maori: hinehī, irawhiti
• Norman: transsexuel m, transsexuelle f
• Norwegian: transperson (no)
• Persian: دوجنسه (fa) (do-jense)
• Polish: transseksualista (pl) m, transseksualistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: transexual (pt) m or f
• Russian: транссексуа́л (ru) m (transsɛksuál)
• Spanish: transexual (es) m or f
• Swedish: transsexuell (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} transessuale (it) m or f

See also

• male-to-female
• female-to-male
• intersexual, intersex
• transvestite

Further reading

• Transsexual on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “transsexual”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “transsexual”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “transsexual”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “transsexual”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• transexuals

Catalan

Etymology

From trans- +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾən.sək.suˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾan.sek.suˈal]

Adjective

transsexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural transsexuals)

1. transsexual

Noun

transsexual m or f by sense (plural transsexuals)

1. a transsexual person

Derived terms

• transsexualitat

See also

• transgènere

Interlingua

Adjective

transsexual (not comparable)

1. transsexual

Noun

transsexual (plural transsexuales)

1. transsexual

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French transsexual. By surface analysis, trans- +‎ sexual.

Adjective

transsexual m or n (feminine singular transsexuală, masculine plural transsexuali, feminine and neuter plural transsexuale)

1. transsexual

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	transsexual		transsexuală		transsexuali	transsexuale
	definite	transsexualul		transsexuala		transsexualii	transsexualele
genitive- dative	indefinite	transsexual		transsexuale		transsexuali	transsexuale
	definite	transsexualului		transsexualei		transsexualilor	transsexualelor