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(intransitive) To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex.
Many intersexuals, however, are surgically assigned as male or female, and for some that assignment causes such disharmony between body and psyche that the subject then transsexes in adulthood.
There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.
Isis transsexes Iphis, female to male (Met. 9.668: Iphide mutata) in the nick of time (unusque dies restabat) on his/her wedding day.
New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.
Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.
Use transsex when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Transsex means (intransitive) To transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.).
Common synonyms include transsexual.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex.
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