transgender
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
relating to transgender people, their lives, or the places they use.
pertaining to the transgender community, its members, or social spaces designated for their use.
Simple“The city opened a new community center to support transgender youth.”
In context“The university updated its policies to ensure that transgender students have access to inclusive housing and healthcare services.”
“Further, while data on the proportion of eating disorders among transgender athletes is not yet available, trans individuals typically display elevated rates of eating disorders compared with their peers.”
“The Progress Pride flag represents LGBTQ+ and transgender communities, as well as people of colour.”
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Italic *trānts Latin trāns Latin trans-bor. English trans- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Latin genus Old French gendrebor. Middle English gendre English gender English transgender The adjective sense is derived from trans- (“extending across, through, or over”) + gender, modelled after transsexual (adjective) and probably modified from transgenderism which was coined by the American psychiatrist John F. Oliven (1915–1975) in 1965; the terms transgender, transgenderal, transgendered, transgenderist, and similar terms arose in the decades after this. By the 1990s, the word transgender had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual: see the usage notes. The noun and verb senses are derived from the adjective. Regarding noun noun sense 2 ("synonym of transgenderism"), compare transsex (noun).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.