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transsexual Definition

trans·sex·ual (trans seks̸ho̵̅o̅ əl, tran-)

noun

a person who is predisposed to identify with the opposite sex, sometimes so strongly as to undergo surgery and hormone injections to effect a change of sex

transsexual Related Forms
trans·sexu·al·ism′ noun
transsexual Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • allow: UK law does not allow transsexuals to change their birth certificate.
  • employ: All they tell you is that two of the 43 forces in the country employ one transsexual, possibly more.. .
  • treat: He just told him that the practice did not treat transsexuals and arranged for him to see the counselor ).
  • give: Then, the Appeal Court gave transsexuals the right to sex change operations on the NHS.
  • recruit: Police to recruit transsexuals A police force is planning to recruit transsexuals to promote its equal opportunities policy.
  • help: Adventures of agreat persuader THERE are not many people whose claim to fame is helping a well-know transsexual get to the sex change clinic.

Preposition: in

  • country: And the message is getting home at last that transsexuals in this country are the recipients of some quite extraordinary official prejudice.

Adjective modifier

  • male-to-female: Huffman stars as Bree Osbourne, a male-to-female transsexual who is about to undergo surgery to become a full woman.
  • pre-op: Huffman won an Oscar nomination for her performance, and tho I've never been a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, it seemed persuasive enough.
  • pre-operative: Only at the end of the show did they learn the truth - that Miriam was a pre-operative transsexual.
  • female: I would like to share with you some of the techniques she uses to assist in voice improvement with male to female transsexuals.
  • male: Bree ( a flawless Felicity Huffman ) is a biologically male transsexual ready for genital surgery.

Modifies a noun

  • prostitute: They do not find La Tenia, however, rather the transsexual prostitute who was with him.
  • people: The essence of the act is simple: new rights for transsexual people.
  • person: Among all the countries in the Council of Europe, only four do not recognize a transsexual person 's new status.
  • woman: The petitioner is a transsexual woman who went through a ceremony of marriage with a man in 1981.
  • officer: Sergeant Nicola Lamb is the second transsexual officer in Britain.
  • right: The principal speaker at the Press for Change meeting has direct experience of presenting transsexual rights cases in the English Courts.

Noun used with modifier

  • well-know: Adventures of agreat persuader THERE are not many people whose claim to fame is helping a well-know transsexual get to the sex change clinic.