transgender

/tษนรฆnzหˆdส’ษ›ndษš/

IPA: /T R AE1 N Z JH EH1 N D ER0/

noun
  1. 1

    A transgender person.

  2. 2

    Transgenderism; the state of being transgender. (Compare transsex.)

verb
  1. 1

    To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of. (Compare transsex.)

adjective
  1. 1

    (narrowly) Having a gender (identity) which is different from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male at birth but having a female or non-binary gender or vice versa; or, pertaining to such people. (Compare transsexual, and the following sense.)

  2. 2

    (broadly) Not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female; having changed gender identity from male to female or female to male, or identifying with elements of both, or having some other gender identity; or, pertaining to such people. (Compare genderqueer, transsexual.)

  3. 3

    (of a space) Intended primarily for transgender people.

  4. 4

    (of a space) Available for use by transgender people (in addition to non-transgender people).

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender