TRANSGENDER

Transgender

Transgender is the state of one's gender identity not matching one's assigned sex . Transgender is independent of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual; some may consider conventional sexual orientation labels inadequate or inapplicable to them. The precise definition for transgender is changing but nevertheless includes:

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transgender

Noun

  1. Transgenderism; the state of being transgender.
  2. A transgender person.

Verb

  1. To change the gender of; to change the sex of.

Adjective

  1. Having changed gender identity from male to female, or from female to male.
  2. Not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female; having changed gender identity from male to female or female to male, or identifying with elements of both, or having some other gender identity.


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