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