Definition of "transgender" []

• Having changed gender identity from male to female, or from female to male. (Compare transsexual.) (adjective)
• 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. (Compare transsexual, transvestite and genderqueer.) (adjective)
• Transgenderism. (noun)
• A transgender person. (noun)
• To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of. (verb)

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• "She also notes that even the term transgender contains meanings which are "still under construction," suggesting an intellectual movement of savvy terminology which continues to evolve."
• "PINSKY: Does the term transgender trouble you in some way or?"
• "Now 70, Richards rejects the term transgender along with all the fluidity it conveys."