# transgender

Pronunciation: US say "tranz-JEN-der" /ˌtɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹ/; UK say "tranz-JEN-duh" /tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə/

## Adjective

1. Of a person: having a gender identity that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. This includes trans men and trans women and, in the broader and more common use, non-binary people.
   - Simple: Having a gender that is different from the sex a person was given when they were born.
   - _Alex came out as transgender in college and now identifies as non-binary._
   - _The support group welcomes transgender people of every identity, including agender and bigender members._
2. Relating to transgender people or to their experiences or identity; also, intended for or open to use by transgender people.
   - Simple: Connected with transgender people, or made for transgender people to use.
   - _The museum opened an exhibit on transgender history in the American West._
   - _Advocates said the court's decision marked a turning point for transgender rights._
4. Of a person: breaking with, or not identifying with, a culture's conventional gender roles and its categories of male and female.
   - Simple: Not following, or not fitting into, the usual ideas of male and female.
   - _The movement brought together cross-dressers, drag kings, and other transgender people who refused the old categories._
   - _The club used transgender in a wide sense, for anyone who bent the usual rules of dress and behavior._

## Noun

3. The state of being transgender. *(rare)*
   - Simple: The fact or state of being transgender.

## Adjective

5. Extending across, or shared by, more than one gender. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Shared by, or true for, people of more than one gender.

## Verb

6. To cause someone to have a different gender or sex. *(rare)*
   - Simple: To make someone become a different gender or sex.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A transgender person, or transgender people considered as a group.

## Origin

The adjective comes from trans- ("extending across, through, or over") + gender, modelled on transsexual and probably adapted from transgenderism, a term coined in 1965 by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven. By the 1990s transgender had acquired its current senses and had largely replaced the earlier term transsexual; the noun and verb senses come from the adjective.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/transgender (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).