Added 9 October 2026
transsexual
/tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/ noun
In Latin: none, coined in 1923 Coined: 1923, by Magnus Hirschfeld Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about transsexual at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
adjective
- Identifying with the opposite gender from the one that one is born with.
Origin
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.
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