transexion

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Etymology

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From trans- +‎ Latin sexus (sex) +‎ -ion.

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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

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