transgender
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transgender (plural transgenders)
- A person who thinks that the gender assigned to them at birth is not a correct or complete description of what they feel; a catch-all term that includes transvestites, transsexuals, cross-dressers and others.
- A person whose gender may be different than that assigned at birth, but are comfortable with their birth physical sex.
- (euphemism) A transsexual person.
- The state of being any of such kinds of person.
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person who thinks that the gender assigned to them at birth is not a correct or complete description of what they feel
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to transgender (third-person singular simple present transgenders, present participle transgendering, simple past and past participle transgendered)
- To alter a person's gender by altering the person's physical sexual characteristics. Non-standard. The verb generally accepted for this process is transition.
