transexion

English

Etymology

From trans- + Latin sexus (“sex”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænˈsɛkʃən/, /tɹɑːnˈsɛkʃən/
• Homophone: transection

Noun

transexion (countable and uncountable, plural transexions)

1. (obsolete, rare) Change of sex.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transexion of hares, if that be true which Cardan and other physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first […]

   • 1950, Osiris: 1950-1936/50:

     […] transexion or change from female to male, and hence "from imperfection to perfection"; the transmutation of species in closely allied animals and plants, as horses and asses, dogs and foxes, pheasants and cocks, barley and oats […]

   • 2019 February 21, Jake Poller, Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Albert Engleman, 'Un cas de transposition de sexes', Revue Métapsychique, no. 27 (January-February 1954): 126-128; Albert Engleman, 'A Case of Transexion upon Viewing a Painting', American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences 9, no. 3/4

Synonyms

• sex change

Further reading

• “transexion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “transexion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. "Transformation as regards sex; change of sex."