transsexual

Meaning

Adj

1. (dated) Of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
2. (dated) Of or relating to such a change.

Noun

A transsexual person.

Synonyms

transexual

transgender

hermaphroditic

transgendered

Translations

transsexuel

transexual

transessuale

transexual

transexual

transsexuelle

διαφυλικός

Transsexuelle

transsexuell

transsexual

transsexual

transeksüel

Transsexueller

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹæn(z)ˈsɛkʃuəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Latin sexus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English transsexual
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.