Pertaining to someone who does not identify with conventional categories of male or female, but combines elements of both or moves between the two; sometimes used as a general, inclusive term, and sometimes as synonymous with or opposed to more specific terms such as transsexual, transvestite etc
But the inclusion of the word “trannie” — a pejorative, in some circles — in the title, and the film’s parodic representation of transgender women, has offended many people.
Transgender people, such as transsexuals, do not have a straightforward gender identity. a three-year-project designed to overcome prejudice towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Transgender is also a noun. Karen said she is a transgender -- a man who wants to be a woman and is attracted to women. a general word for people who feel that they belong to the other sex, and not the sex they were born with, and who express this in their sexual behaviour transsexual
{s} displaying behaviors or appearance of the opposite sex; having undergone surgery to become a member the opposite sex; of or pertaining to a transgendered person
A person who thinks that the gender assigned to them at birth is not a correct or complete description of what they feel; a catch-all term that includes transvestites, transsexuals, cross-dressers and others
Describing a person of one sex who considers himself or herself to really belong to the opposite sex, or who wishes to be surgically converted to the opposite sex, or has been so converted. (NOTE: the use of this term is a misnomer. Transgender is in itself an adjective, and therefore does not require the suffix -ed.)
{s} displaying behaviors or the appearance of the opposite sex; having undergone surgery to become a member the opposite sex; of or pertaining to a transgendered person
Describing a person of one sex who considers himself (herself) to really belong to the opposite sex, or who wishes to be surgically converted to the opposite sex, or has been so converted