transgendered

Pluraltransgendereds

1. 1
   adjectivenonstandardoffensive

   Transgender: describing or relating to a person whose gender identity does not match the sex assigned to them at birth.

   Early clinical studies of transgendered patients focused almost entirely on surgery.

   The support group was founded in 1994 by and for transgendered adults in the city.

   Similartransgender, trans

   Oppositecisgender

   Note

   Now uncommon, and many people find it offensive; transgender is the word to use today. It survives in older writing, from a 1970 TV Guide note on Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge to clinical writing around 2000, so readers meet it in quotations far more than in current prose. Quote it where a source uses it, but do not choose it for your own sentences.

2. 2
   verbrare

   Past tense and past participle of transgender. Rare as a verb.

   Note

   The verb behind this form, meaning to change someone's gender, is rare, so the spelling is usually the older adjective instead. As a verb form it serves for both the simple past and the past participle, and a passive use reads exactly like that adjective, with the same risk of giving offense.

3. 3
   nounnonstandardoffensivecountable

   A transgender person, whose gender identity does not match the sex assigned at birth.

   In determining how to accommodate the employee, both attorneys said it is important to take your "cue" from the employee, but also to examine what medical criteria says about transgendereds.

   2002, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report

   In addition to ex-convicts and drug addicts, stigmas are also applied to lesbians, gays, transgendereds, and people who have been hospitalized for mental illness, even after they leave the hospital.

   2008, Madeleine Cousineau, Introducing Sociology: A Whole New World

   Note

   Rarer still than the adjective, nonstandard, and usually offensive. It appears mainly in the plural, in lists of groups, as in BNA's Employment Discrimination Report (2002) and Madeleine Cousineau's Introducing Sociology (2008). The respectful choice is transgender used as an adjective: transgender people, a transgender woman.

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