A person who identifies with a gender different from the one assigned at birth. Because of this, they seek to make physical changes with hormone therapy and/or surgery.
Transsexual.
by Ñ&Ç March 23, 2025
Get the transsexual mug.Transgender person who has had some form of medical intervention to alter their primary or secondary sex characteristics, usually with hormone replacement therapy, sexual reassignment surgery, facial feminization surgery, a combination of those or some other gender affirming procedure. It can also more narrowly refer to a trans person who has had sexual reassignment surgery.
The term is considered offensive by some, because of the history of its usage in psychology and also because transmedicalists have used it to exclude and delegitimize other transgender people. However, others continue to use it merely as a more specific label when it is relevant.
The term is considered offensive by some, because of the history of its usage in psychology and also because transmedicalists have used it to exclude and delegitimize other transgender people. However, others continue to use it merely as a more specific label when it is relevant.
by ElleSi June 19, 2022
Get the Transsexual mug.A cisgender transsexual is someone who rejects the word “transgender” and/or the idea that being trans is about gender, not sex.
This seemingly contradictory label re-asserts the sex–gender duality. It asserts that a transsexual’s struggles are related to sex (i.e. gendered physical features, dysphoria, and medical transition to alleviate the dysphoria by changing the gendered physical features), not to gender (i.e. how they socialize, how they dress, how they are seen by others/society/governments).
The antonym is “transgender cissexual”, but the people who fit that description almost always reject the “accusation” of being “cissexual”, which they see as an act of invalidation of their transgender identity.
This seemingly contradictory label re-asserts the sex–gender duality. It asserts that a transsexual’s struggles are related to sex (i.e. gendered physical features, dysphoria, and medical transition to alleviate the dysphoria by changing the gendered physical features), not to gender (i.e. how they socialize, how they dress, how they are seen by others/society/governments).
The antonym is “transgender cissexual”, but the people who fit that description almost always reject the “accusation” of being “cissexual”, which they see as an act of invalidation of their transgender identity.
There’s no trans solidarity without listening to cisgender transsexuals. So shut up and let her talk.
by the riverside August 09, 2025
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