trans-gender
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Dated spelling of transgender.
noun
Dated spelling of transgender.
Example Sentences
- "Christine Jorgensen, the world's first highly publicized transsexual – or "trans-gender" patient – never planned to be famous because of her surgery."
- "In spite of not "rootin' and tootin'" as a trans-gender case, in recent years [Christine] Jorgensen has been a staple on the college lecture circuit, speaking – of course – about trans-gender and herself."
- ""If you understand trans-genders," she [Christine Jorgensen] says, choosing the word she prefers to transsexuals, "then you understand that gender is different than sexual preference. It doesn't have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity." Jorgensen says she knows of some male-to-female trans-genders who have settled into lesbian relationships. She herself is heterosexual."