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transsexual

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11 lettersPronunciation /tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aaelnrsstuxStarts with TEnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. identifying with the opposite gender from the one that one is born with

Word origin

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.

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  • Stormy […] […] returned from Morocco, where she'd had transsexual surgery.
  • When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.
  • 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, […]

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