transsexualist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From transsexual + -ist.
Noun
[edit]transsexualist (plural transsexualists)
- A transsexual person.
- 1970, Sexology, volume 37, page 26:
- Most transsexualists are males […] Pseudo-hermaphrodites or other intersexes are not to be confused with transsexualists; transvestites may be transsexualists, but not necessarily.
- 1992, John Oulton Wisdom, Freud, Women and Society, page 80:
- [M]oreover the femininity would be required for the body only, not for the mind. For if a transvestite wanted to be female all the time, he would be a transsexualist.