transgender

Meaning

Adj

1. (broadly, not-comparable) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.
2. (broadly, not-comparable) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.
3. (broadly, not-comparable) Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
4. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to transgender people (sense 1), or their experiences or identity.
5. (not-comparable) Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
6. (not-comparable) Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.
7. (dated, not-comparable) Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”).

Noun

1. (countable, offensive, often, usually) A transgender person
2. (countable, offensive, often, uncountable, usually) A transgender person
3. (rare, uncountable, usually) Synonym of transgenderism (“the state of being transgender”).

Verb

1. (offensive, often, transitive, uncommon) To change the gender of (someone).
2. (broadly, offensive, often, transitive, uncommon) To change the sex of (someone).

Synonyms

transgendered

transsexual

trans person

Translations

transgenre

transgénero

transgênero

transgender

διεμφυλικός

transgénera

transgènere

Transgender

transgender

transgénero

مغايرو الهوية الجنسية

trans*

trans

Trans-Person

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgender
The adjective sense is derived from trans- (“extending across, through, or over”) + gender, modelled after transsexual (adjective) and probably modified from transgenderism which was coined by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven (1915–1975) in 1965; the terms transgender, transgenderal, transgendered, transgenderist, and similar terms arose in the decades after this. By the 1990s, the word transgender had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual: see the usage notes.
The noun and verb senses are derived from the adjective. Regarding noun sense 2 ("synonym of transgenderism"), compare transsex (noun).