transsex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.)
Intransitive verb
verb
To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.
Transitive verb
adj
noun
Transsexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare transgender.)
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex."
- "Many intersexuals, however, are surgically assigned as male or female, and for some that assignment causes such disharmony between body and psyche that the subject then transsexes in adulthood."
- "There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies."
- "Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day."
- "New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth."
- "Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex."