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transsexual
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trans·sex·u·al (trns-sksh-l)
n.
A person who strongly identifies with the opposite gender and who chooses to live as a member of the opposite gender or to become one by surgery.
adj.
1. Of or relating to such a person.
2. Relating to medical and surgical procedures designed to alter a person's external sexual characteristics so they resemble those of the opposite gender.
Transsexual
A person with gender identity disorder who has an overwhelming desire to change anatomic sex; one who seeks hormonal or surgical treatment to change sex.
Mentioned in: Gender Identity Disorder
transsexual
[transek′cho̅o̅·əl]
a person whose gender identity is the opposite of his or her biologic sex.
transsexual
adjective Referring to transsexual behavior noun A person manifesting transsexualism, see there


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