Citations:transgender

English citations of transgender

Adjective

General Use

These quotations are examples of 'transgender' used without a clear authorial intent (viewed in the full context) as to whether a "Broad Sense" or a "Narrow Sense" is being used. This group of quotations is not its own separate sense, but is a collection of quotations that might arguably fall into either a "Broad Sense" or a "Narrow Sense" or that there is some lack of specificity as to full meaning.

• 1966 November 16, George W. Hayden, “Thanksgiving at the Theater”, in The Beacon‎^[1], volume LXII, number 9, Kingston, R. I.: University of Rhode Island, page 6, column 3‎^[2]:

  "The Killing of Sister George," I was told, is a black comedy, although I'm sluggish with these shocking studies in transgender identification.

• 1975 September 21 [1975 July 28], Lily-Sabina Fairweather, “Forum”, in Green Egg‎^[3], volume VIII, number 73, San Diego, CA: Council of Earth Religions, Church of All Worlds, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:

  Thanks in advance for publishing poetry, while I do not consider it highly relevant, in answer to remark of two issues ago it does show that in addition to my own transgender search I do have loving genetic Feminist friends who search with me for the glad day when there will truely be only people! […]
  In a sense I am surprised at a certain naiveté (even among certain genetic women) in the general neo-Pagan movement about the Radical Feminist movement: […]

• 1979 January/December 1978, J.J., “The Fellowship Family”, in In Unity, The Gay Christian‎^[4], Los Angeles, CA: Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, page 23, column 2:

  We have taken to the local radio station, to talk about transgender problems. Carol Fremont is working in this area, and by General Conference we should have some interesting insights and understandings to share regarding transgender persons.

• 1979, Nancy, “Feather Your Own Nest”, in Transvestia‎^[5], volume XVII, number 98, Los Angeles, CA: Chevalier Publications, →LCCN, archived from the original on 2023-06-19, pages 36–37:

  After having lived much of our lives according to a socially accepted prescription, many of us come to realize that we have not been true to ourselves. As full-time or part-time transgenderists, we feel the need to improve the quality of life for ourselves by creating an environment around us which is compatible with the kind of life style we wish to achieve. […]
  While looking for a change of apartments, I walked into the rental office of a large complex, looked at the models and then proceeded to tell the manager about myself ... my work, my hobbies, and, yes, even my transgender lifestyle ... but all in a very matter-of-fact and self-confident manner. The result was total acceptance. In fact, they invited me to return as Nancy to the Halloween party they were holding that same evening ... and I did!

• 1980 February/March, Robbie Hamilton, “Will someone sign for me?”, in In Unity‎^[6], Los Angeles, CA: Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, page 21, column 1:

  Many of us have been drug addicts. Many of us have been alcoholics. Many of us are either aged or aging individuals. A few of us are transvestites. A few of us are transgender individuals. What is it in us that makes us want to stay in our comfortable closets, makes us afraid to reach out?

• 1981, Linda Lee, “Public Speaking”, in Female Mimics International‎^[7], volume 11, number 8, Studio City, CA: Eros Publishing Company, page 47, column 2:

  To the same end, I steer clear from any "far out" explanation of the transgender phenomenon. I have seen a speaker have an audience fairly well with her and then, in the space of a few minutes, alienate a substantial number of them by trying to tie transgenderism to the concept of reincarnation.

• 1982, John C. Gonsiorek, “Introduction”, in Homosexuality: Social, Psychological, and Biological Issues‎^[8], SAGE Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

  Much of the theorizing of the nineteenth century viewed homosexuality as either willful sin or a biologically determined sickness, with the common explanation being that homosexuals were another sex, different from male or female, and more akin to hermaphrodites and other individuals with genetic or structural anomalies. This confusion, along with a merging of gender identity or transgender phenomena with sexual orientation variation, continues to haunt and confuse the study of sexual behavior — about which more will be said later.

• 1990, Ray Blanchard, anonymous quotee, “Gender Identity Disorders in Adult Women”, in Ray Blanchard, Betty W. Steiner, editors, Clinical Management of Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adults‎^[9], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:

  I was involved with the transvestite peer support group on my own — he never became involved and disliked my involvement in the group. He saw it as threatening because it encouraged my transgender leanings. As I said, he liked to "play" and "pretend" in the crossgender world, but didn’t want me to get too serious about it.

• 2004 October 18, “Zuni”, in Santa Barbara (California) Edhat:

  But then I remembered reading about the Zuni Indian tribe that respected the most transgender individual as a spiritual guide because they didn't have their sexuality getting in the way of attaining a higher consciousness.

• 2009 June 18, “A Pro Bono Transgender Primer”, in CBS News:

  Parents often feel guilty but the wide consensus is that parenting does not cause a child to be become transgender.

• 2017 July 27, Emily Rauhala, “Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case”, in The Washington Post‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2017, WorldViews‎^[11]:

  A Chinese court on Thursday found that a transgender man was unjustly fired from his job, a first-of-its-kind ruling that activists called a step forward in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. […]
  Mr. C, a transgender Chinese man who says he was fired for wearing men's clothes, stands outside a court in Guiyang, China, July 27, 2017, holding the court’s ruling that his dismissal violated his employment rights.

• 2022 August 30, William Yen, “Filipino dancer decodes beauty pageants and their colonial roots”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[12], archived from the original on 03 September 2022, Culture‎^[13]:

  Belgium-based Filipino dancer Joshua Serafin’s performance later this week at the Taipei Arts Festival explores transgender beauty pageants from the Philippines and the politics, culture and hidden colonial past behind the industry, the artist said Tuesday.

• 2023 February 6, Stefan Dege, Louisa Schaefer, “Kim Petras: How the trans artist made history”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[14], archived from the original on 2023-03-30‎^[15]:

  When Kim Petras teamed up with English singer Sam Smith on "Unholy," a song about male infidelity and betrayal of the ideal of marriage, she may not have expected to make history.
  But now, the German pop singer Petras is the first transgender woman to win a coveted Grammy in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category.
  At the Grammy Awards on February 5, 2023, Petras thanked "transgender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so that I could be here tonight." […]
  Back in October 2022, the duo Petras and Smith had already become the first publicly transgender and nonbinary solo artists, respectively, to have reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts with their single.

• 2023 April 26, Mary Zhao, “China’s transgender ‘medicine girls’ can’t find the medicine they need”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[16], archived from the original on 2023-04-26‎^[17]:

  Trans activists told RFA they have observed an increase in suicides since the ban’s implementation, and pleas for help have emerged in online chat rooms and social media posts where transgender women find support.
  "There has been a marked increase in cases [of suicide], far more than in previous years during the same time period," said “Hanlianyi,” a trans activist who provides shelter and other forms of assistance to transgender women in China.

• 2023 June 14, J. Edward Moreno, “Bud Light Is No Longer America’s Top-Selling Beer After Boycott”, in The New York Times‎^[18], →ISSN:

  Bud Light has been dethroned as the nation’s top-selling beer in recent weeks, a data analytics company said, a sign that the backlash the brewer received from conservatives over its relationship with a transgender influencer may be taking a toll.

Broad Sense

• 1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching‎^[19], Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 455:

  transgender—an individual who lives as a person of a gender different from the one society defines for that person’s sex (e.g., male "transvestites" who wear women’s clothing, hair styles and other body accoutrements, use "feminine" speech and body language, and identify with the gender category woman). Also sometimes referred to as ‘‘cross-gendered people’’ (Blackwood 1984).

• 1998, Judith Halberstam, “Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum”, in Female Masculinity‎^[20], Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 161–162:

  Because these categories are so difficult to disentangle, perhaps, a new category has emerged in recent years, “transgender.” Transgender describes a gender identity that is at least partially defined by transitivity but that may well stop short of transsexual surgery. Inevitably, the term becomes a catchall, and this somewhat lessens its effect. […] Transgender discourse in no way argues that people should just pick up new genders and eliminate old ones or proliferate at will because gendering is available as a self-determining practice; rather, transgender discourse asks only that we recognize the nonmale and nonfemale genders already in circulation and presently under construction.

• 2000, Tim Dean, “Transcending Gender”, in Beyond Sexuality‎^[21], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62:

  It is not only drag queens and transsexuals who fall under the rubric of transgender, but in fact all “gender outlaws,” all those who remain unwilling or unable to conform to the norms attendant on either side of the gender divide. This definition of transgenderists as gender outlaws — which comes from transsexual lesbian performance artist Kate Bornstein — has the capacity to bring within its purview anybody who does not completely “pass” as a regular heterosexual member of the male or female sex, anyone who expresses dissatisfaction with the normative exigencies of masculinity or femininity. Membership in this transgenderist category thus expands almost infinitely, encompassing feminists as well as lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered, the intersexed, and their political supporters. We are all potentially transgenderists now.

• 2002, Adam/Linda Parascandola, “Trans or Me?”, in Daniel Kolak, Raymond Martin, editors, The Experience of Philosophy‎^[22], 5th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 168, 172:

  Let me define a few terms. Transgender is a term I use for all those who do not feel the sex they were assigned at birth is an adequate description of themselves. That is, they feel that their gender/sex identity in some ways goes beyond or differs from the category of male or female to which they were assigned at birth. […]
  My experience as a transsexual blurs the lines of gender identity but does not altogether negate the two-gender system. One could argue that men and women are the only two types of humans and that transsexuals have simply had their wires crossed and belong to the sex opposite to the one they were born into. I was a man born in a woman’s body, you could say. However, many transgender people are living in defiance of the traditional sex and gender system. They refuse to identify as male or female or may choose to identify as both. Their gender may be defined by any number of terms now being claimed as identities. Some of these terms have been in effect for many years: shemale, butch, stone butch, and so on. Others are newer to our vocabulary: boychick, riot grrl, s/he, FTM, trannyfag, and so on. These terms are most easily explained as designating different genders. Through increasing body modifications, however, many people no longer clearly fit into one sex or the other. A shemale may choose to have her breasts enlarged surgically and to be put on estrogen but keep her male genitalia.

• 2004 March 7, Fred A. Bernstein, “On Campus, Rethinking Biology 101”, in The New York Times‎^[23], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 November 2014, Style‎^[24]:

  Transgender is a term that describes, and unites, a broad category of people who are uncomfortable in the gender of their birth, said Dr. Ken Zucker, a psychologist who heads a child and adolescent gender-identity clinic in Toronto. Transgender students may also be transsexual -- moving from male to female, or female to male with the help of surgery or hormones. (Luke considers himself a "female-to-male trans," no longer fully female but not yet fully male.)
  Some transgender students aren't moving between sexes; they're parked somewhere in the middle and prefer to describe themselves as "gender queer" -- signifying that they reject the either-or male-female system.
  Dr. Zucker said young people claiming a transgender identity "vary in the degree to which they want physical intervention." He added: "Gender identity is distinct from sexual orientation. Gender identity pertains to how a person feels about being male or female; sexual orientation pertains to who are you attracted to sexually."

• 2014, Sheila Jeffreys, “Transgenderism and feminism”, in Gender Hurts: A feminist analysis of the politics of transgenderism‎^[25], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:

  Queer theory adopted the term ‘transgender’ to cover those engaging in ‘transgressive’ performances of gender. This included lesbian and gay role players alongside transvestites, drag queens and kings, and both old-fashioned transsexuals, mired in biology, and those who reject biological explanations for their transitioning. As Holly (now Aaron) Devor puts it,‘Under the rubric of queer sexuality, we have seen postmodern sensibilities come to the fore as more and more people come forward to claim their right to be whatever their hearts and groins tell them to be’ (Devor, 2002: 16). In this respect, queer sexuality is about whatever turns you on, with no interest in the social construction and political implications of individual desires and practices. Queer theory’s politics of identity represents a fierce individualism. Devor explains that the queer/transgender community is composed of‘transsexual lesbians, of tranny fags and the men who love them, of lesbians and gay men who enjoy sex together, and of dyke daddies who live out their fantasies as SM gay men’ (ibid.). The transgender activist and academic, Susan Stryker, explains that transgender became ‘articulated’ with queer in the form of ‘an imagined political alliance of all possible forms of gender antinormativity’ (Stryker, 2008: 146).

• 2014 February 13, Martha Mendoza, quoting Brielle Harrison, “Facebook offers new gender options for users”, in AP News‎^[26], archived from the original on 2023-06-09‎^[27]:

  “There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female. On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.
  “All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it’s kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,” she said. “This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is.”

• 2019 June 4, Daniel Bergner, “The Struggles of Rejecting the Gender Binary”, in The New York Times‎^[28], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2019‎^[29]:

  Neutrois and gender nonconforming and demiboy and demigirl and pangender and genderqueer are among the array of closely related identities that could confound any demographer. Another complication is that many nonbinary people also call themselves transgender or trans — not, as Salem has, to avoid explaining themselves, but as an umbrella term, encompassing all kinds of self-definition, all sorts of physical transformation and transgression of the norms of F and M.
  […] The results suggest — tenuously — that the total of all transgender-identified adults in the United States is in the neighborhood of 1.4 million. The optional section had a lone follow-up question seeking more specificity: “Do you consider yourself to be male-to-female, female-to-male or gender nonconforming?” Around one-fifth of those who identified as trans chose nonconforming. Yet at the very outset of the section, any interview subject asking for clarification about the meaning of transgender was given a traditional binary definition along with an example of someone born male but living as female. So anyone who rejected both male and female classifications was potentially excluded. All told, the results didn’t provide much insight into nonbinary numbers; instead, the surveys were a reminder of the confusion and ignorance surrounding the topic.

• 2020 December 14, Tre'vell Anderson, “Nonbinary TV characters had a landmark year. Advocates say hold the applause”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[30], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 December 2020‎^[31]:

  Considering that identity and language are deeply personal and can shift depending on time and space, “nonbinary” can be defined in as many ways as there are nonbinary people. For some, nonbinary is a gender presentation or expression, a way of describing their behavior, mannerisms or appearance. For others, nonbinary refers to their gender identity, an assertion that they are something other than, or beyond, a man or a woman. Some nonbinary people are also transgender, while others are not, and they can use masculine, feminine or gender-neutral pronouns.

Narrow Sense

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• 1983 Spring, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “DEFINITIONS”, in The TV-TS Tapestry‎^[32], number 39, Wayland, MA: Tiffany Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:

  TRANSGENDER (TG): It used to be that a transgenderist was a person who could express himself comfortably in both masculine and feminine terms. It did not carry the compulsive or sexual implications as does the term 'transvestite'. (Another term, 'femmiphile', meaning 'lover of the feminine', gained popularity for basically the same reason). More recently however, the term 'transgenderist' has come more and more to mean a person of one sex living entirely in the gender role generally considered appropriate for the opposite sex. Transgenderists do not consider themselves 'transsexual'.

• 1988, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “Definitions of Terms Commonly Used in the Transvestite-Transsexual Community”, in The TV-TS Tapestry‎^[33], number 51, International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:

  Gender identity is whether or not a person perceives him/herself to be a man or woman (see ‘man’ and ‘woman’). The problem arises when a male perceives himself to be a woman, and vise versa^{[sic – meaning vice versa]}. Notice I said man or woman, and not male or female. The difference is important. Male and female are biological terms, while man and woman as they are used here are modes of being, ways to be, which are based on psychology and sociology rather than biology. (see ‘gender dysphoria’)
  Sexual identity is a ‘transsexual’ issue and may involve sexual re-assignment surgery, but may not involve cross-dressing. Gender identity is a ‘transgender’ issue and does not involve surgery, but almost always involves cross-dressing.

• 1990, Louis Sullivan, “Epilogue”, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland‎^[34], Boston: Alyson Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:

  What is happening in the world at the time, restrictions or freedom in sex-role choices, or in access to clothing fabrics and styles — none of these have much influence on the transgender person’s desire to be the opposite sex.

• 1994, Curtis O. Byer, Louis W. Shainberg, “Gender Identity and Gender Roles”, in Dimensions of Human Sexuality‎^[35], 4th edition, Brown & Benchmark, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 344:

  Transsexualism, also called transgenderism, is the most extreme form of gender misidentification. A transsexual, or transgender, person is a biologically normal-appearing male or female who believes that he or she should have been born a member of the other sex. Transsexual people believe that a biological mistake has been made and that they were born with the wrong body for their feelings. This is sometimes described as the feeling of being "trapped" in the body of the wrong sex. Many transsexual people seek medical help with the goal of changing their body to fit their feelings. The term transsexual or transgender is used in reference to these people whether they undergo sex-change surgery or not.

• 1998, Gerald P. Mallon, “Appendix: Definitions of Key Terms”, in Gerald P. Mallon, editor, Foundations of Social Work Practice with Lesbian and Gay Persons‎^[36] (Gay & Lesbian Studies; Social Work/Human Services), Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 275–276:

  Transgender: Is a person whose gender identity is different from her/his biological gender. Many transgender individuals are persons who report feeling trapped in the wrong body. These people psychologically identify themselves with the opposite biological gender and desire to be a person of that gender. Some transsexuals will eventually opt for sex reassignment surgery; others will not. Most transsexuals do not identify themselves as gay or lesbian.

• 2006 December 6, Damien Cave, “City Drops Plan to Change Definition of Gender”, in The New York Times‎^[37], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04, New York‎^[38]:

  The plan, if passed, would have put New York at the forefront of a movement to eliminate anatomical considerations when defining gender. It had been lauded by some mental health professionals and transgender advocates who said it would reduce discrimination against men and women who lived as members of the opposite sex. […]
  The board did approve a more minor change: Under a law passed in 1971, people who can prove that they had sex-change surgery could delete the male or female designation from their birth certificates. Now, they can change it.
  Dr. Frieden said that this would bring New York City in line with most of the country and would help alleviate the transgender community's concerns about discrimination. […]
  However, transgender advocates accused the city of bowing to pressure from institutions and residents who feared interacting too closely with men who live as women and women who live as men. They noted that the city would have required doctors to verify that the gender change was permanent.

• 2012 December 19, “Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Sexual Abuse and Assault in Confinement Facilities”, in Federal Register‎^[39], volume 77, number 244, United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 75332, 75337:

  Transgender means a person whose gender identity (i.e., internal sense of feeling male or female) is different from the person’s assigned sex at birth. […]
  The facility should not base placement decisions of transgender or intersex detainees solely on the identity documents or physical anatomy of the detainee: a detainee’s self-identification of his/her gender and self-assessment of safety needs shall always be taken into consideration as well.

• 2015 January 17, Peter Holley, “Kentucky proposal: Encounter a transgender person in the wrong restroom, sue for up to $2,500”, in The Washington Post‎^[40], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-18, Post Nation‎^[41]:

  A proposal in the Kentucky legislature would require that transgender students avoid school restrooms, locker rooms and showers that don’t correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
  The Kentucky Student Privacy Act, sponsored by Republican state Sen. C.B. Embry, is also designed to punish school administrators who give transgender students access to school facilities designated for the opposite sex.
  “Parents have a reasonable expectation that schools will not allow minor children to be viewed in various states of undress by members of the opposite biological sex, nor allow minor children to view members of the opposite sex in various states of undress,” the bill states.
  If a school administrator allowed a transgender student to use a facility designated for the opposite sex or if a school “failed to take reasonable steps to prohibit the person encountered from using from facilities designated for use by the opposite biological sex,” students would be allowed to sue the school, according to the bill.

• 2015 April 1, Kieran Guilbert, “Surgery and sterilization scrapped in Malta's benchmark LGBTI law”, in Reuters‎^[42], archived from the original on 2023-03-03, Lifestyle‎^[43]:

  Denmark last year became the first European country to allow transgender people to change legal gender without medical intervention, but its law set a minimum age of 18 and requires people to wait six months before reconfirming their wish to be legally recognized as the opposite gender.

• 2015 August 29, Ben Machell, “The transgender kids”, in The Times‎^[44], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 March 2023‎^[45]:

  She emphasises that being transgender really has nothing to do with your anatomy. There are terms for individuals who have undergone sex reassignment surgery – “transexed”, for example – whereas to be transgender is simply to have the conviction that you are the opposite gender to the body you have been assigned.

• 2016 November, Melvin Otey, “What Does the Bible Say about Having a Sex Change?”, in Reason & Revelation‎^[46], volume 36, number 11 (Religion), Apologetics Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 128, column 2:

  Transgender people are biologically members of one gender but identify in their minds with the other. While Jenner is probably the most famous transgender person in the world, he certainly is not alone.

• 2017, “transgender”, in Merriam-Webster Dictionary‎^[47], archived from the original on 2017-04-13‎^[48]:

  Definition of transgender
  : of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity differs from the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth
  especially : of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is opposite the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth

• 2018, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “Human Development”, in Psychological Science‎^[49], 6th edition, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 367:

  Biology has a strong effect on whether people identify as female, male, or transgender. A transgender person was born as one biological sex but feels that her true gender identity is that of the other sex. One theory of why gender and biological sex differ for those who are transgender has to do with timing of hormonal events during pregnancy.

• 2018 June 19, “Transgenderism no longer a mental illness: WHO”, in France 24‎^[50], archived from the original on 2018-06-19‎^[51]:

  Transgender people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation.
  The World Health Organization issued a new catalogue Monday covering 55,000 diseases, injuries and causes of death, in which it discreetly recategorised transgenderism. […]
  Several countries have already taken steps to reclassify transgenderism and take it off the list of mental disorders, including France and Denmark.
  Say said she thought the text, which is the result of years of discussion among experts, would easily win approval, despite widespread lack of acceptance of transgender people in many parts of the world.

• 2022 March, Florian Kurth, Christian Gaser, Francisco J. Sánchez, Eileen Luders, “Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine‎^[52], volume 11, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-25, Abstract‎^[53]:

  Transgender people report discomfort with their birth sex and a strong identification with the opposite sex. The current study was designed to shed further light on the question of whether the brains of transgender people resemble their birth sex or their gender identity. For this purpose, we analyzed a sample of 24 cisgender men, 24 cisgender women, and 24 transgender women before gender-affirming hormone therapy. We employed a recently developed multivariate classifier that yields a continuous probabilistic (rather than a binary) estimate for brains to be male or female. The brains of transgender women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (p = 0.016 and p < 0.001, respectively). These findings add support to the notion that the underlying brain anatomy in transgender people is shifted away from their biological sex towards their gender identity.

Noun

• 2003 March 24, “Transgenders Seek Equality in Eyes of Law”, in Orlando (Florida) Sentinel:

  Throughout Central Florida, transgenders — an umbrella term encompassing transsexuals, cross-dressers, intersexed people also known as hermaphrodites, […]

• 2006 November 26, “Soap to feature transgender character”, in USA Today:

  Emotions are so close to the surface in soap operas, and this story can serve a purpose by showing what transgenders go through, he said.

• 2009 September 2, “Now, a Miss India beauty pageant for transgenders in city”, in Times of India:

  About 150 beauties with a difference will congregate in the city when it hosts the first Miss India contest for transgenders on December 19, 2009.

Verb

• 1997, Barbara F. McManus, Classics & Feminism: Gendering the Classics, page 114:

  If the transgendering of Aeneas's role is to succeed, the epic needs to present the feminine in some positive contexts that will interrogate the relentlessly negative scapegoating of the feminine on the figurative level.

• 2000, Echoes and Inscriptions →ISBN:

  The transgendering of the mystical voice as a means of identifying with God is not, however, a phenomenon found exclusively in religious Spanish poetry.

• 2017, Stanton Horn, Dirtbag Disciple

  I found out a year later that he had transgendered himself and was performing in adult films.

Adjective: crossgender

• 1967 March, John P. Leary, “Woman in American Society Today”, in Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea‎^[54], volume XLII, number 164, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 116:

  Of course some unhappiness is simply a transgender phenomenon. Realists learn to expect a day in which perhaps 40 to 80 per cent is made up of repetition of what was done the day before and the day before that. Any set of normal days with over 20 per cent of excitement in them would be extraordinary. Consequently, the mere fact of being human, whether male or female, requires endurance, tolerance, a sense of moderate wholesome expectations.

• 1982, Sara Ruddick, “Maternal Thinking”, in Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions‎^[55], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:

  Unless we have identified "male" and "female" aspects of thought, however, the claim of gender bias is an empty one. I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by transgender interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share.

• 1984, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, “Conclusion: The Feminist Movement and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom”, in Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom‎^[56], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 391:

  Unlike capitalism, under socialist transformation there is a normative basis for maintaining the principle of collective (transgender) responsibility in the activity of reproduction and childrearing, as in everything else.

• 1988, Tara Jones, “Against Toxic Capital”, in Corporate Killing: Bhopals Will Happen‎^[57], Free Association Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:

  Not only do men share in the responsibility for children - but also, toxic chemicals that affect women’s reproductive health do not bypass the male reproductive system. In Bhopal, for example, impotence and loss of libido were reported among a large proportion of exposed males. Reproductive effects are a transgender issue that men as well as women should address.