transpersonn.
/ˈtranzˌpəːs(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈtrænzˌpərs(ə)n/ A person who is transgender or transsexual.
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the world > life > sex and gender > transgender person > [noun]
she-male1842
ladyboy1857
mujerado1882
transsexual1949
transsexualist1954
male-to-female1977
transgender1979
transperson1979
FTM1987
MTF1990
1979 Off our Backs Aug. 9/3 The conference split on a resolution by a Houston delegate that would have required the official title of the march and all literature regarding it to mention ‘transpersons’.
1989 Gay Community News (Electronic ed.) 9 We used poetry, fiction and essays to analyze the nature of African-American culture, the challenges of living with AIDS, and the contemporary struggles of transpersons.
1998 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 23 Mar. 8 Such issues are complicated, deep-rooted and cause terrible pain and dilemmas for a transperson.
2006 T. M. Bettcher in F. Ó Murchadha Violence, Victims, Justif. 182 The transperson may find themselves represented as somebody pretending to be or dressing as somebody of ‘the opposite sex’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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