Definition of "transgendered" []

• Appearing as, wishing to be considered as, or having undergone surgery to become a member of the opposite sex. (adjective)
• Of or relating to a transgendered person or transgendered people. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Do you mean people who identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned to at birth, including transsexuals who might reject the term transgendered or insist that their post-transition gender/identity is wholly straightforward?"
• ""It's unbelievable that a song about accepting everyone, with the word transgendered in it, was number one for so long," says his friend Michael Joseph, modestly dressed in skinny jeans and lobster heels."
• "Priscilla Queen of the Desert musical on Broadway and the word "transgendered" pops up in chart-topping pop songs."