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==English==
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[[File:Transgender Pride flag.svg|250px|thumb|'''transgender''' flag]]

===Etymology===
{{etymon|en|id=having a gender different from one's assigned sex|af|trans->across, beyond|gender>social category|tree=1}}
The {{glossary|adjective}} sense is derived from {{prefix|en|trans<t:extending across, through, or over>|gender}}, modelled after {{m|en|transsexual|pos=adjective}}<ref name="OED">{{R:OED Online|pos=<!--''-->adj.'' and ''n<!--''-->|id=1951538889|date=December 2023|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=adj|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626083636/https://www.lexico.com/definition/transgender}}</ref> and probably modified from {{m|en|transgenderism}} which was {{coinage|en|John F. Oliven|w=-|nat=the American|occ=psychiatrist|nobycat=1|nocap=1}} (1915–1975) in 1965;<ref>{{cite-book|en|author=John F. Oliven|chapter=Sexual Deviations|title=Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions|edition=2nd|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=[[w:J. B. Lippincott & Co.|J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.]]|year=1965|page=514|pageurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816104558/https://i2.wp.com/research.cristanwilliams.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/photo1.jpg|oclc=804038|passage=''Transexualism''. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender (“sex”) change, transvestism becomes “transexualism.” The term is misleading; actually, “transgenderism” is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.}}</ref><ref>{{cite-book|author=Thomas E. Bevan|chapter=Definitions and Population Frequencies|title=The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism: A New View Based on Scientific Evidence|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=Praeger, [[w:ABC-Clio|ABC-CLIO]]|year=2014|page=42|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/psychobiologyoft0000beva/page/42/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-4408-3126-3|passage=The term ''transsexual'' was introduced by Cauldwell (1949) and popularized by Harry Benjamin (1966) {{...}} The term ''transgender'' was coined by John Oliven (1965) and was popularized by various transgender people who pioneered the concept and practice of transgenderism. It is sometimes said that Virginia Prince (1976) popularized the term, but history shows that many transgender people advocated the use of the term much more than Prince. {{...}} Transsexuals constitute a subset of transgender people.}}</ref><ref name="Erie Gay News">{{cite-journal|en|author=Ray Simon|title=Stirring up the Origin of the ‘Alphabet Soup’|journal={{w|Erie Gay News}}|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111041638/https://www.eriegaynews.com/news/article.php?recordid=201711lgbtalphabetsouporigin|location=Erie, Pa.|publisher=EGC Coalition|month=November|year=2017|issn=2159-1792|oclc=694108900|passage=According to scholars, the word [''transgender''] first appeared in print in John F. Oliven’s 1965 book, “Sexual Hygiene and Pathology.” Oliven writes: / Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender (‘sex’) change, transvestism becomes ‘transsexualism.’ The term is misleading; actually, ‘transgenderism’ is what is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. / Although Oliven’s understanding of “transgender” is not the same as our understanding of it today, his use of it is still significant. As K. J. Rawson and Cristan Williams note in their book, “Transgender*: The Rhetorical Landscape of a Term,” Oliven didn’t use the word in the book’s 1955 edition; it was added later, when the second edition was revised and published. / Gradually, some members of this marginalized community began to apply the word “transgender” to themselves. For example, Virginia Charles Prince, publisher of the long-running periodical “Transvestia,” occasionally used a variation of the word, “transgenderal.”}}</ref> the terms ''transgender'', {{m|en|transgenderal}}, {{m|en|transgendered}}, {{m|en|transgenderist}}, and similar terms arose in the decades after this.<ref name="Erie Gay News"/> By the 1990s, the word ''transgender'' had acquired its current senses, and had also largely displaced the earlier term ''transsexual'': see the [[#Usage notes|usage notes]].<ref name="TR2006">{{cite-book|author={{w|Paisley Currah}}|chapter=Gender Pluralisms under the Transgender Umbrella|editors=Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter|title=Transgender Rights|year=2006|section=part I (Law)|page=4|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/transgenderright0000unse/page/4/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-8166-4311-0|passage=From signifying a subject position between cross-dresser and transsexual, the meaning of ''transgender'' expanded radically in the early 1990s to include them, along with other cross-gender practices and identities.}}</ref>

The {{glossary|noun}} and {{glossary|verb}} senses are derived from the adjective.<ref name="OED"/> Regarding noun {{senseno|en|transgenderism}} ("synonym of ''transgenderism''"), compare {{m|en|transsex#Noun|pos=noun}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/tɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndə/|/tɹɑːnz-/|/tɹæns-/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˌtɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹ/|/ˌtɹæn(t)s-/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-transgender.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛndə(ɹ)|s=3}}
* {{hyphenation|en|trans|gen|der}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj|-}}

# {{senseid|en|identity}}{{lb|en|broadly}} Of a [[person#Noun|person]]: [[have#Verb|having]] a [[gender#Noun|gender]] ([[gender identity|identity]]) which is [[different]] from one's [[assign]]ed [[sex#Noun|sex]]; that is, the [[identity]] of a [[trans man]], [[trans woman]], or someone [[non-binary]], for example, [[agender]], [[bigender]]{{,}} or [[third gender|third-gender]]. {{defdate|from 1974}}
#: {{coordinate terms|en|transsexual|nonbinary|genderqueer}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=J. J.|title=The Fellowship Family: News and Notes of MCC People and Events around the World|editor=F. Jay Deacon|journal=The Gay Christian: A Journal of Theological Reflection from Metropolitan Community Church|year='''1978''' December – '''1979''' January|location=Santa Monica, Calif.|publisher=w:Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches|page=23|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cbpac_000388/page/n22/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=6122094|passage=We have taken to the local radio station, to talk about transgender problems. Carol Fremont is working in this area, and by General Conference we should have some interesting insights and understandings to share regarding '''transgender''' persons.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Pierre Bowman|title=Back in showbiz&nbsp;Christine Jorgensen|editor=George Chaplin|journal=w:The Honolulu Advertiser|series=People Report Section|location=Honolulu, Hi.|publisher=w:Thurston Twigg-Smith|date=3 May 1979|page=B-1|pageurl=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser-back-in-showbiz/36529325/|column=3|issn=1072-7191|oclc=663366710|passage={{w|Christine Jorgensen}}, the world's first highly publicized transsexual&nbsp;– or "'''trans-gender'''" patient&nbsp;– never planned to be famous because of her surgery.}}
#* {{RQ:Guardian|author=Jessica Green|title=I'm sorry, I'm not lesbian: My being a straight editor of [[w:PinkNews|Pink News]] has confused and angered some&nbsp;– but it shows how far gay rights have come|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811153354/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/mar/03/pink-news-editor-not-gay|date=3 March 2010|passage=One head of a small gay charity visibly flinched when I mentioned my boyfriend and has been cold towards me ever since. I've even caught someone staring down my top to see if I'm '''transgender'''.}}
#* {{RQ:NYT|author=Natasha Lennard|title=City Room: Transgender film draws protests at festival site|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223034948/https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/transgender-film-draws-protests-at-festival-site/|date=7 April 2010|passage=The film, "{{w|Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives}}," is described by its creator, [[w:Israel Luna (filmmaker)|Israel Luna]], as an homage to 1970s exploitation films. But the inclusion of the word "trannie"—a pejorative, in some circles—in the title, and the film's parodic representation of '''transgender''' women, has offended many people.}}
#* {{RQ:WaPo|author=Emily Rauhala|title=Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case|section=WorldViews|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111094409/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/27/transgender-chinese-man-wins-first-of-its-kind-labor-discrimination-case/?utm_term=.e6cd1e60fa91|date=27 July 2017|passage=A Chinese court on Thursday found that a '''transgender''' man was unjustly fired from his job, a first-of-its-kind ruling that activists called a step forward in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. {{...}} Mr. C, a '''transgender''' Chinese man who says he was fired for wearing men's clothes, stands outside a court in Guiyang, China, July 27, 2017, holding the court’s ruling that his dismissal violated his employment rights.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Stefan Dege; Louisa Schaefer|title=Kim Petras: How the trans artist made history|work=w:Deutsche Welle|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330205042/https://www.dw.com/en/kim-petras-how-the-trans-artist-made-history/a-63675535|date=6 February 2023|passage=When {{w|Kim Petras}} teamed up with English singer {{w|Sam Smith}} on "[[w:Unholy (Sam Smith and Kim Petras song)|Unholy]]," a song about male infidelity and betrayal of the ideal of marriage, she may not have expected to make history. But now, the German pop singer Petras is the first '''transgender''' woman to win a coveted Grammy in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. At the Grammy Awards on February 5, 2023, Petras thanked "'''transgender''' legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so that I could be here tonight." {{...}} Back in October 2022, the duo Petras and Smith had already become the first publicly '''transgender''' and nonbinary solo artists, respectively, to have reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts with their single.}}
## {{lb|en|narrowly}} Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is [[opposite#Adjective|opposite]] from the sex one was assigned at [[birth#Noun|birth]]: being assigned [[male#Noun|male]] but having a [[female#Adjective|female]] gender, or [[vice versa]] (that is, not including a non-binary identity).
##* {{quote-journal|en|author=w:Merissa Sherrill Lynn|title=Definitions of Terms Commonly Used in the Transvestite–Transsexual Community|editors=Diane Dixon; Jan Dixon; Veronica Brown|journal=The TV–TS Tapestry: The Journal for Persons Interested in Crossdressing & Transsexualism|location=Wayland, Mass.|publisher=w:International Foundation for Gender Education|year=1988|issue=51|page=22|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/tvtstapestry51unse/page/22/mode/1up|issn=0884-9749|oclc=1001848585|passage=Gender identity is whether or not a person perceives him/herself to be a man or woman (see ‘man’ and ‘woman’). The problem arises when a male perceives himself to be a woman, and vise versa.{{sic|vice versa}} Notice I said man or woman, and not male or female. The difference is important. Male and female are biological terms, while man and woman as they are used here are modes of being, ways to be, which are based on psychology and sociology rather than biology. (see ‘gender dysphoria’) Sexual identity is a ‘transsexual’ issue and may involve sexual re-assignment surgery, but may not involve cross-dressing. Gender identity is a ‘'''transgender'''’ issue and does not involve surgery, but almost always involves cross-dressing.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Lou Sullivan|Louis Sullivan]]|chapter=Epilogue|title=From Female to Male: The Life of {{w|Jack Bee Garland}}|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=w:Alyson Publications|year=1990|page=174|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/from-female-to-male-the-life-of-jack-bee-garland/page/174/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-55583-150-9|passage=What is happening in the world at the time, restrictions or freedom in sex-role choices, or in access to clothing fabrics and styles—none of these have much influence on the '''transgender''' person’s desire to be the opposite sex.}}
##* {{RQ:Times|en|author=Ben Machell|title=The transgender kids|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322111552/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-transgender-kids-kprmxnkf358|date=29 August 2015|passage=She emphasises that being '''transgender''' really has nothing to do with your anatomy. There are terms for individuals who have undergone sex reassignment surgery – “transexed”, for example – whereas to be '''transgender''' is simply to have the conviction that you are the opposite gender to the body you have been assigned.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Michael Gazzaniga|Michael S. Gazzaniga]]|chapter=Human Development|title=Psychological Science|edition=6th|location=New York, N.Y|publisher=[[w:W. W. Norton & Company|W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company]]|year=2018|page=367|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dokumen.pub_psychological-science-1-6nbsped-9780393640403/page/367/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-393-64040-3|passage=Biology has a strong effect on whether people identify as female, male, or '''transgender'''. A '''''transgender''''' person was born as one biological sex but feels that her true gender identity is that of the other sex. One theory of why gender and biological sex differ for those who are '''transgender''' has to do with timing of hormonal events during pregnancy.}}
##* {{quote-web|en|title=Transgenderism no longer a mental illness: WHO|work=w:France 24|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619184127/https://www.france24.com/en/20180619-transgenderism-no-longer-mental-illness-who|date=19 June 2018|passage='''Transgender''' people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation. The World Health Organization issued a new catalogue Monday covering 55,000 diseases, injuries and causes of death, in which it discreetly recategorised transgenderism. {{...}} Several countries have already taken steps to reclassify transgenderism and take it off the list of mental disorders, including France and Denmark. Say said she thought the text, which is the result of years of discussion among experts, would easily win approval, despite widespread lack of acceptance of '''transgender''' people in many parts of the world.}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|author=Florian Kurth; Christian Gaser; Francisco J. Sánchez; Eileen Luders|title=Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity|journal=w:Journal of Clinical Medicine|location=Basel, Basel-Stadt|publisher=w:MPDI|month=March|year=2022|volume=11|issue=6|section=abstract|doi=10.3390/jcm11061582|issn=2077-0383|pmid=35329908|oclc=1115956980|passage='''Transgender''' people report discomfort with their birth sex and a strong identification with the opposite sex. The current study was designed to shed further light on the question of whether the brains of '''transgender''' people resemble their birth sex or their gender identity. For this purpose, we analyzed a sample of 24 cisgender men, 24 cisgender women, and 24 '''transgender''' women before gender-affirming hormone therapy. We employed a recently developed multivariate classifier that yields a continuous probabilistic (rather than a binary) estimate for brains to be male or female. The brains of '''transgender''' women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (<math>p = 0.016</math> and <math>p < 0.001</math>, respectively). These findings add support to the notion that the underlying brain anatomy in '''transgender''' people is shifted away from their biological sex towards their gender identity.}}
# {{lb|en|loosely}} Of a person: [[transgress]]ing or not [[identify]]ing with [[culturally]] [[conventional#Adjective|conventional]] [[gender role]]s and [[category|categories]] of male or [[female#Noun|female]].
#: {{coordinate terms|en|gender-nonconforming}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Howlin’ Mad Johann [pseudonym]|title=[Letter]|journal=w:Maximum Rocknroll|location=San Francisco, Calif.|publisher=Maximum Rock’n’Roll|month=June|year=1992|issue=109|page=&#91;10&#93;|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/MaximumRocknrollNo.109june1992/page/n9/mode/1up|column=2|issn=0743-3530|oclc=10553172|passage=I think the new punk rockers are going to be more androgynous, more bisexual, more '''transgender''', more ethnically diverse and less willing to take shit than before, as well as less homophobic, racist, and sexist, not because it's politically correct, man, but because all of those things stink of a parent's world of authoritarian bullshit that want to deprive people of their individuality.}}
#* {{RQ:Time|author=John Cloud|title=Trans across America|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316182655/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,139585,00.html|date=24 June 2001|passage=Less noticed, however, is that gender nonconformists have been working together, with some remarkable successes, to build a political movement. Their first step was to reclaim the power to name themselves: '''transgender''' is now the term most widely used, and it encompasses everyone from cross-dressers (those who dress in clothes of the opposite sex) to transsexuals (those who surgically "correct" their genitals to match their "real" gender).}}
# Of or pertaining to transgender people ''({{senseno|en|identity}})'', or their [[experience#Noun|experiences]] or identity.
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=J. J.|title=The Fellowship Family: News and Notes of MCC People and Events around the World|editor=F. Jay Deacon|journal=The Gay Christian: A Journal of Theological Reflection from Metropolitan Community Church|year='''1978''' December – '''1979''' January|location=Santa Monica, Calif.|publisher=w:Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches|page=23|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cbpac_000388/page/n22/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=6122094|passage=We have taken to the local radio station, to talk about '''transgender''' problems.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Nancy [pseudonym]|title=Feather Your Own Nest|editor=w:Virginia Prince|journal=[[w:Virginia Prince#Transvestia magazine|Transvestia]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619090739/https://vault.library.uvic.ca/downloads/604f7a73-4098-4f67-b66f-d8c95ff56e40?locale=en|location=Los Angeles, Calif.|publisher=Chevalier Publications|year=1979|volume=XVII|issue=98|pages=36–37|oclc=10363080|passage=After having lived much of our lives according to a socially accepted prescription, many of us come to realize that we have not been true to ourselves. As full-time or part-time transgenderists, we feel the need to improve the quality of life for ourselves by creating an environment around us which is compatible with the kind of life style we wish to achieve. {{...}} While looking for a change of apartments, I walked into the rental office of a large complex, looked at the models and then proceeded to tell the manager about myself&nbsp;… my  work, my hobbies, and, yes, even my '''transgender''' lifestyle&nbsp;… but all in a very matter-of-fact and self-confident manner. The result was total acceptance. In fact, they invited me to return as Nancy to the Halloween party they were holding that same evening&nbsp;… and I did!}}
#* {{RQ:WaPo|author=Emily Rauhala|title=Transgender Chinese man wins first-of-its-kind labor discrimination case|section=WorldViews|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111094409/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/07/27/transgender-chinese-man-wins-first-of-its-kind-labor-discrimination-case/?utm_term=.e6cd1e60fa91|date=27 July 2017|passage=A Chinese court on Thursday found that a transgender man was unjustly fired from his job, a first-of-its-kind ruling that activists called a step forward in the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and '''transgender''' rights.}}
# Of a [[space#Noun|space]]: [[intend]]ed [[primarily]] for transgender people.
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Walter O. Bockting; Sheila Kirk|chapter=Transgender Health and Social Service Needs in the Context of HIV Risk|title=Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Haworth Press|The Haworth Press]]|year=2001|page=46|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/transgenderhivri0000unse/page/46/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-7890-1267-8|passage=Despite the significant HIV/AIDS risks faced by transgenders, we could locate targeted prevention programs in only a handful of locations throughout the country. {{...}} In Boston, no AIDS prevention messages are posted at the primary drag queen and '''transgender''' bar.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Connie Emerson|chapter=Gay and Lesbian Visitors|title=Top 10 Las Vegas|series=[[w:Eyewitness Books|DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides]]|edition=1st US|location=London&#59; New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:DK (publisher)|Dorling Kindersley]]|year=2003|page=128|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/lasvegas0000conn/page/128/mode/1up|column=2|isbn=978-0-78948-354-6|passage=The Las Vegas Lounge is the city's only '''transgender''' bar.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Martin Zatko|chapter=Listings [Drinking and Nightlife]|editor=Róisin Cameron|title=The Rough Guide to Seoul|location=London|publisher=w:Rough Guides|month=June|year=2011|page=130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetoseou0000zatk/page/130/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-40538-000-3|passage=''Trance'' {{...}} A thriving '''transgender''' bar on the main Itaewon drag, {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=William Yen|title=Culture: Filipino Dancer Decodes Beauty Pageants and Their Colonial Roots|work=Focus Taiwan: [[w:Central News Agency (Taiwan)|CNA English News]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903121017/https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202208300035|date=30 August 2022|passage=Belgium-based Filipino dancer Joshua Serafin’s performance later this week at the Taipei Arts Festival explores '''transgender''' beauty pageants from the Philippines and the politics, culture and hidden colonial past behind the industry, the artist said Tuesday.}}
# Of a space: [[available]] for [[use#Noun|use]] by transgender people, rather than only [[non-]]transgender people.<!--in only some uses, it means something like gender-neutral-->
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Benjamin Gedan|title=Group wants transgender bathrooms for UMASS|journal=w:The Boston Globe|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=The Globe Newspaper Co.|date=2 October 2002|issn=0743-1791|oclc=66652431|passage=Group wants '''transgender''' bathrooms for UMASS [title]}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Olaf Aprans|chapter=Transgenderism|title=The Minuteman|location=Amherst, Mass.|publisher=The Minuteman, undergraduate students at the {{w|University of Massachusetts Amherst}}|date=26 November 2002|oclc=931087875|newversion=quoted in|2ndauthor=Olga Gershenson|chapter2=The Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets and Campus Politics|editors2=w:Harvey Molotch; Laura Norén|title2=Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing|series2=NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis|location2=New York, N.Y.&#59; London|publisher2=w:New York University Press|year2=2010|section2=part III (Building in the Future)|page2=199|pageurl2=https://archive.org/details/toiletpublicrest0000unse/page/199/mode/1up|isbn2=978-0-8147-9588-0|passage=Why the sudden outcry for '''transgender''' bathrooms? The answer is easy, the activists behind this movement are using a petty issue like bathrooms as a medium to throw their lifestyles in the face of every-day students.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=William Keith; Christian O. Lundberg|title=Public Speaking: Choice and Responsibility|location=Belmont, Calif.|publisher=Andover|year=2013|isbn=978-0-495-56986-2|passage=In contrast, in a democratic conversation or dialogue, the speaker would begin by identifying the larger public issues that connect to the availability of '''transgender''' bathrooms: equality, civil rights, {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} {{synonym of|en|crossgender|t=across [[multiple#Adjective|multiple]] genders}} {{defdate|from mid 20th c.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=John P. Leary|title=Woman in American Society Today|journal=[[w:Thought: Fordham University Quarterly|Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea]]|location=Bronx, New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Fordham University Press|month=March|year=1967|volume=XLII|issue=164|page=116|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_thought_spring-1967_42_164/page/116/mode/1up|issn=0040-6457|oclc=1155627294|passage=Of course some unhappiness is simply a '''transgender''' phenomenon. Realists learn to expect a day in which perhaps 40 to 80 per cent is made up of repetition of what was done the day before and the day before that. Any set of normal days with over 20 per cent of excitement in them would be extraordinary. Consequently, the mere fact of being human, whether male or female, requires endurance, tolerance, a sense of moderate wholesome expectations.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Judie Black|title=Ey has a word for it|editor=w:Clayton Kirkpatrick|journal=w:Chicago Tribune|series=Tempo (1C) section|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=w:Tribune Publishing|date=23 August 1975|issue=235|page=2|pageurl=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-1975-call-for-transgende/58186615/|columns=1–2|issn=1085-6706|oclc=7960243|passage=Those are the winning entries in the Chicago Association of Business Communicators' contest to find pronouns to replace she and he [ey], him and her [em], his and hers [eir]. {{...}} [C]ontest winner Christine M. Elverson of Skokie says her words are "'''transgender''' pronouns." She formed them by dropping "the" from the familiar plural pronouns, they, them, and their. For example, a speaker might use these new '''transgender''' pronouns when ey addresses an audience of both men and women.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Sara Ruddick|chapter=Maternal Thinking|editors=w:Barrie Thorne; w:Marilyn Yalom|title=Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions|location=White Plains, N.Y.|publisher=w:Longman|year=1982|page=91|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/rethinkingfamily00thor/page/91/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-582-28265-0|passage=Unless we have identified "male" and "female" aspects of thought, however, the claim of gender bias is an empty one. I do not doubt that disciplines are also shaped by '''transgender''' interests, values, and concepts, which women, whether or not they engage in maternal practices, may fully share.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Rosalind P. Petchesky|chapter=Conclusion: The Feminist Movement and the Conditions of Reproductive Freedom|title=Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom|series=Longman Series in Feminist Theory|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Longman|year=1984|page=391|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/abortionwomansch0000petc/page/391/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-582-28215-5|passage=Unlike capitalism, under socialist transformation there is a normative basis for maintaining the principle of collective ('''transgender''') responsibility in the activity of reproduction and childrearing, as in everything else.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Tara Jones|chapter=Against Toxic Capital|title=Corporate Killing: Bhopals Will Happen|location=London|publisher=w:Free Association Books|year=1988|section=part 2 (More Bhopals)|page=273|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/corporatekilling0000jone/page/273/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-85343-008-4|passage=Not only do men share in the responsibility for children—but also, toxic chemicals that affect women’s reproductive health do not bypass the male reproductive system. In Bhopal, for example, impotence and loss of libido were reported among a large proportion of exposed males. Reproductive effects are a '''transgender''' issue that men as well as women should address.}}

====Usage notes====
* The word ''transgender'' became popular in the 1970s,<ref>{{R:Merriam-Webster Online|pos=adj|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413060630/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transgender|passage=''especially'': of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is opposite the sex the person was identified as having at birth {{...}} First Known Use 1974, in the meaning defined above}}</ref><ref name="Dictionary.com">{{R:Dictionary.com|pos=adj}}</ref> and by the 1990s it had largely displaced the older word {{m|en|transsexual}}.<ref name="TR2006"/><ref>{{cite-web|title=transgender,transsexual|work=w:Google Ngram Viewer|titleurl=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=transgender%2Ctranssexual&year_start=1960&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctransgender%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctranssexual%3B%2Cc0|accessdate=December 5, 2017}}.</ref> (''Transsexual'' is now often considered outdated,<ref name="Dictionary.com"/> although some people still prefer it; see {{l|en|transsexual|its entry}} for more. Neither term should be confused with {{m|en|transvestite}}; see further at that entry.) ''Transgender'' is an umbrella term, encompassing [[trans man|trans men]] and [[trans woman|trans women]], and often also encompassing [[nonbinary]] people;<ref>{{cite-book|entry=Transgender and Nonbinary Filipinx Americans|entryurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGN7EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT1775|editors=[[w:Kevin Nadal|Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal]]; Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales; E. J. R. David|title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies|location=Thousand Oaks, Calif.|publisher=[[w:Sage Publishing|SAGE Publications]]|year=2022|volume=2|isbn=978-1-07-182899-1|passage=Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity or lived experience does not match their sex assigned at birth. It can be used to describe people who were assigned a binary sex at birth {{...}} and who identify with the other binary sex{{nb...}}. ''Transgender'' can also be used to identify people who identify with a nonbinary gender.}}</ref> using ''transgender'' to refer strictly to people with a binary gender identity might be considered offensive and exclusionary towards non-binary people.
* For the usage of this word (and similar adjectives) as a [[#Usage notes 2|noun]] and [[#Usage notes 3|verb]], see below.<!--This note is necessary because several other pages point to this page's usage notes, meaning the notes under the noun and verb senses below rather than the note here.-->

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|en|trans-gender}} {{qualifier|dated}}
* {{alter|en|transgener}}
* {{alter|en|xgender}} {{qualifier|abbreviation}}

====Synonyms====
* See [[Thesaurus:transgender]]

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|cisgender}}

====Hypernyms====
{{col|en
|LGBT
|LGBTQ
|LGBTQIA+
}}

====Hyponyms====
{{col3|en|title=not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories
|agender
|ambigender
|bigender
|genderfluid
|genderqueer
|non-binary
|third gender
|trigender
}}

====Derived terms====
{{col3|en
|antitransgender
|tranniversary
|tranny<ll:derogatory,offensive>
|trans
|trans*
|trans female
|transgenderal
|transgendered
|transgenderisation,transgenderization
|transgenderise,transgenderize
|transgenderism
|transgenderist
|transgender marriage
|transgenderness
|trans male
|trans man
|trans person
|trans woman
}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|gender-free}}
* {{l|en|transphobia}}
* {{l|en|transsex}}
* {{l|en|[[transsexual]]}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|ca|transgènere|cal=1}}
* {{desc|nl|transgender|bor=1}}
* {{desc|fr|transgenre|cal=1}}
* {{desc|de|transgender|bor=1}}
* {{desc|ja|トランスジェンダー|tr=toransujendā|bor=1}}
* {{desc|ko|트랜스젠더|bor=1}}
* {{desc|pt|transgénero<q:Portugal>|transgênero<q:Brazil>|cal=1}}
* {{desc|es|transgénero|cal=1}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|(''broadly'') of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one’s assigned sex; (''strictly'') of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|transgenero}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|transgènere}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|transgenra}}, {{t+|eo|transseksa}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|transsoolisus}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|transsukupuolinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|transgenre}}, {{t+|fr|trans}}
* German: {{t+|de|transgender}}, {{t+|de|trans}}, {{t|de|trans*}}, {{t+|de|transgeschlechtlich}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|transznemű}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|transfólk}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|trasinscneach}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|transgenere}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|трансро́дов}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|irawhiti}}
* Nepali: {{t+|ne|पारलैङ्गिक व्यक्ति}}
* Newar: {{t|new|यितामि}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|transkjønnet}}, {{t+|nb|transperson}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|transkjønna}}, {{t|nn|transperson}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|transpłciowy|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|transgénero|m}} {{qualifier|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|transgênero|m}} {{qualifier|Brazil}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|трансгендерный}}
* Sardinian: {{t|sc|transgènere}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|tar-ghnèitheach}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|transgénero}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|transperson}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|chuyển giới}}, {{t|vi|hoán giới}}, {{t|vi|đổi tính}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|trawsryweddol|m|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of a person: transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مُتَحَوِّل جِنْس|m}}, {{t|ar|مُتَحَوِّلَة جِنْس|f}}, {{t|ar|عَابِر|m}}, {{t|ar|عَابِرَة|f}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|трансджендър}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|transgènere}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|跨性別|tr=kuàxìngbié}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|transgender}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|muunsukupuolinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|transgenre}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|transxénero|m}}, {{t|gl|transxénera|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|transgender}}, {{t+|de|trans}}, {{t|de|trans*}}, {{t+|de|transgeschlechtlich}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|διεμφυλικός|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|טרנסג׳נדרי}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|transznemű}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|transgenra}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|transgenere}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|トランスジェンダー|tr=toransujendā}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|трансгендерлық}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|트랜스젠더}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|transkjønnet}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|transpłciowy|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|transgénero|m}} {{qualifier|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|transgênero|m}} {{qualifier|Brazil}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|transgen}}, {{t|ro|transgender}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|трансге́ндерный|tr=transgéndɛrnyj}}, {{t+|ru|транссексуа́льный|tr=transsɛksuálʹnyj}}
* Sardinian: {{t|sc|transgènere}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|tar-ghnèitheach}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t|sh|transrodan|m}}, {{t|sh|transrodna|f}}, {{t|sh|трансродна|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|transgénero}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|könsöverskridande}}
* Tigrinya: {{t|ti|ስግረ ጾተኛ|m}}, {{t|ti|ስግረ ጾተኛዊት|f}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|trawsryweddol|m|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of or pertaining to transgender people, or their experiences or identity}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[transsukupuolinen|transsukupuolisiin]] [[liittyvä]]}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|transznemű|alt=transznemű-}} {{q|forming a compound}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of a space: intended primarily for transgender people}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[transsukupuolinen|transsukupuolisille]] [[tarkoitettu]]}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|transznemű|alt=transznemű-}} {{q|forming a compound}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[transsukupuolinen|transsukupuolisille]] [[sallittu]]}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|transznemű|alt=transznemű-}} {{q|forming a compound}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|''synonym of'' crossgender|crossgender}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|-|s}}

# {{lb|en|countable|now|often|offensive}} A [[transgender#Adjective|transgender]] [[person#Noun|person]]
#: {{synonyms|en|transgenderal<q:uncommon>}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Jerry Parker|title=A woman with no regrets|editor=Stanley Green|journal=[[w:Newsday|LI: Newsday’s Magazine for Long Island]]|edition=Suffolk|location=Melville, N.Y.|publisher=Newsday Inc.|date=23 September 1979|page=18|pageurl=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-transgender/143432227/|columns=3–4|issn=0278-5587|oclc=54839840|passage="If you understand '''trans-genders'''," she &#91;{{w|Christine Jorgensen}}&#93; says, choosing the word she prefers to transsexuals, "then you understand that gender is different than sexual preference. It doesn't have to do with bed partners, it has to do with identity." Jorgensen says she knows of some male-to-female '''trans-genders''' who have settled into lesbian relationships. She herself is heterosexual.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Sue-Ellen Jacobs; Christine Roberts|chapter=Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance|editor=w:Sandra Morgen|title=Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=w:American Anthropological Association|year=1989|page=455|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/genderanthropolo0000unse/page/455/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-913167-33-5|passage='''''transgender'''''—an individual who lives as a person of a gender different from the one society defines for that person's sex (e.g., male "transvestites" who wear women's clothing, hair styles and other body accoutrements, use "feminine" speech and body language, and identify with the gender category ''woman''). Also sometimes referred to as "cross-gendered people" (Blackwood 1984).|brackets=on}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Walter Bockting; Eric Avery|title=Transgender Health and HIV Prevention: : Needs Assessment Studies from Transgender Communities across the United States|series=[[w:International Journal of Transgender Health|International Journal of Transgenderism]]|seriesvolume=volume 8, issues 2–3|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Haworth Medical Press|year=2005|page=116|isbn=978-0-7890-3015-3|passage=In a patriarchal society in which ''machismo'' rules, MTF [male-to-female] '''transgenders''' represent a challenge to traditional masculinity due to their renouncing of the male position of social power.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Caroline Symons; Dennis Hemphill|chapter=Transgendering Sex and Sport in the Gay Games|editor=Jayne Caudwell|title=Sport, Sexualities and Queer/Theory|series=Routledge Critical Studies in Sport|location=Abingdon, Oxfordshire&#59; New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Routledge|year=2006|page=122|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sportsexualities0000unse/page/122/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-415-36761-5|passage=There were divisions for [netball] teams of men, women, mixed and '''transgenders'''. Individual '''transgenders''' could compete in any division; however, transgender teams could not play against biological women's teams.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Sheila Jeffreys|title=Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism|location=Abingdon, Oxfordshire&#59; New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Routledge|year=2014|page=70|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xhRxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT76|isbn=978-0-415-53939-5|passage=This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers—particularly nullos and '''transgenders'''—on the Body Modification Ezine website.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Helen Davies|title=Transgender woman forced to move house after death threats and knife in her front door|journal=w:Liverpool Echo|location=Liverpool, Merseyside|publisher=[[w:Reach plc|Trinity Mirror Merseyside]]|year=2015|issn=1751-6277|oclc=500165464|passage=Nat spent years being victimised as a male to female '''transgender''' but was too scared to report it.}}
## {{lb|en|preceded by '''''[[the]]'''''}} Transgender people [[collectively]].
# {{senseid|en|transgenderism}}{{lb|en|uncountable|rare}} {{synonym of|en|transgenderism|t=the [[state#Noun|state]] of being transgender}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Pierre Bowman|title=Back in showbiz&nbsp;Christine Jorgensen|editor=George Chaplin|journal=w:The Honolulu Advertiser|series=People Report Section|location=Honolulu, Hi.|publisher=w:Thurston Twigg-Smith|date=3 May 1979|page=B-1|pageurl=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser-back-in-showbiz/36529325/|column=6|issn=1072-7191|oclc=663366710|passage=In spite of not "rootin' and tootin'" as a trans-gender case, in recent years [[w:Christine Jorgensen|[Christine] Jorgensen]] has been a staple on the college lecture circuit, speaking&nbsp;– of course&nbsp;– about '''trans-gender''' and herself.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=w:Leslie Feinberg|title=The love that dared to speak its name|journal=[[w:Workers World (newspaper)|Workers World]]|url=https://archive.org/details/transgender-warriors-making-history-from-joan-of-arc-to-dennis-rodman-feinberg-leslie-1949/Lavender_and_Red/page/n8/mode/1up|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=WW Publishers|date=10 June 2004|issn=1070-4205|oclc=28359687|passage=The Scientific Humanitarian Committee published a yearbook that reported on movement activities. It also documented literary, cross-cultural, cross-historical and scientific studies on same-sex love and '''transgender'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Alison Stone|chapter=Sex|title=An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire&#59; Malden, Mass.|publisher=w:Polity Press|year=2007|page=41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKwG7cpVW1IC&pg=PA41|isbn=978-0-7456-3882-9|passage=Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena&nbsp;– transsex and '''transgender'''&nbsp;– which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.}}

====Usage notes====
* In Western countries, many transgender people consider the use of ''transgender'' (and similar adjectives) as a noun to be offensive, and several guides advise against such usage.<ref>{{cite-web|title=transgender|work=[[w:Reuters|The Reuters Style Guide]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801105220/http://handbook.reuters.com/?title=T#transgender|year=2018|passage=Do not use transgender as a noun; no one should be referred to as “a transgender.’}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite-web|title=transgender, trans|work=[[w:The Guardian|Guardian and Observer Style Guide]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313154607/https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-t|date=20 May 2021|passage=Where relevant, use transgender {{...}} only as an adjective: transgender person, trans person; never ‘transgendered person’ or ‘a transgender’.}}</ref><ref>{{cite-web|title=[[w:BBC News|BBC News Style Guide]]: Gender/sex|work={{w|BBC Academy}}|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222083800/http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/news-style-guide/article/art20130702112133564|year=2017|passage=Do not say ‘transsexuals’, in the same way we would not talk about ‘gays’ or ‘blacks’.}}</ref><ref>{{cite-web|title=Glossary of Terms: Transgender|work=[[w:GLAAD|GLAAD Media Reference Guide 11th Edition]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111183657/https://glaad.org/reference/trans-terms/|year=2024|passage=TERM TO AVOID: “transgenders,” “a transgender”  / ''Transgender'' should be used as an adjective, not as a noun. Do not say, “Tony is a transgender,” or “The parade included many transgenders.” {{...}} BEST PRACTICE: transgender people, a transgender person / For example, “Tony is a transgender man,” or “The parade included many transgender people.”}}</ref> “A transgender man” (for a man who was assigned the female sex at birth) or “a transgender woman” (for the reverse) is frequently more appropriate.

====Hypernyms====
* {{l|en|LGBT}}

====Coordinate terms====
* {{l|en|berdache}}
* {{l|en|hijra}}
* {{l|en|two-spirit}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|transgender person}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|تَحَوُّل الْجِنْسِيّ|m}}
* Armenian: {{t|hy|տրանսգենդեր}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|трансге́ндар|m}}
* Bengali: {{t|bn|রূপান্তরিত লিঙ্গ}}
* Breton: {{t|br|treuzrevelezh}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|трансджендър}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|transgènere|m|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|跨性別者|tr=kuàxìngbiézhě}}
* Danish: {{t|da|transperson|c}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|transgenrulo}}, {{t+|eo|transseksulo}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|trans inimene}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|transihminen}}, {{t+|fi|transsukupuolinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|transgenre|m|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|transexual|m|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|ტრანსგენდერი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Transperson|f}}, {{t+|de|Transmensch|m}}, {{t+|de|Transgender|m}} {{qualifier|male or generic}}, {{t+|de|Transgenderin|f}} {{qualifier|female}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|διεμφυλικός|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|טרנסג׳נדר|alt=טרנסג'נדר}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|transznemű}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|transfólk}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|transgenro}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|transgender}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|トランスジェンダー|tr=toransujendā}}, {{t|ja|性別越境者|tr=せいべつえっきょうしゃ, seibetsu ekkyōsha}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|트랜스젠더}}
* Malayalam: {{t|ml|ഭിന്നലിംഗർ}}
* Northern Sami: {{t|se|tránsaolmmoš}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|transperson|m}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|osoba transpłciowa|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|transgénero|m}} {{qualifier|Portugal}}, {{t+|pt|transgênero|m}} {{qualifier|Brazil}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|transgen|n}}, {{t|ro|transgender}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|трансге́ндер|m}}, {{t+|ru|транссексуа́л|m}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|tar-ghnèitheach|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|трансродно|n}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|transrodno|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|transgénero|m}}, {{t|es|transgénera|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|msenge}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|transperson|c}}
* Tigrinya: {{t|ti|ስግረ ጾተኛ|m}}, {{t|ti|ስግረ ጾተኛዊት|f}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|трансге́ндер|m}}, {{t|uk|трансге́ндерка|f}}, {{t|uk|трансґе́ндер|m}}, {{t|uk|трансґе́ндерка|f}}
* Welsh: {{t|cy|trawsrywedd}}
* Yurok: {{t|yur|wergern}} / {{t|yur|wrgrn}}<!--linguistic orthography--> {{qualifier|male-bodied person who lives as a woman}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|''synonym of'' transgenderism|transgenderism}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}} {{term-label|en|transitive|often|offensive|uncommon}}

# To [[change#Verb|change]] the [[gender#Noun|gender]] of (someone).
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Sue Tolleson-Rinehart; Jyl J. Josephson|title=Gender and American Politics|pages=15 and 205|isbn=0765631563
|passage={{...}} and one that is still dominated by male nominees, women nominees might be seen as either contributing to the regendering, or the '''transgendering''', of the Cabinet.<br>{{...}}<br>This chapter examines women secretaries-designate in terms of their contributions to regendering or '''transgendering''' a cabinet office, to a gender desegregation or integration of the cabinet.}}
# {{lb|en|loosely}} To change the [[sex#Noun|sex]] of (someone).

====Usage notes====
* In Western countries, many transgender people consider the use of ''transgender'' (and similar adjectives) as a verb in reference to transgender individuals to be offensive, much the same as its use as a noun.<ref name="Guardian"/>

====Translations====
{{trans-top|to change the gender of (someone)}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[vaihtaa]] [[sukupuoli|sukupuolta]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to change the sex of (someone)}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[vaihtaa]] [[sukupuoli|sukupuolta]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====See also====
* {{l|en|acault}}
* {{l|en|crossdress}}, {{l|en|drag}}
* {{l|en|intersex}}
* {{l|en|sex reassignment surgery}}
* {{l|en|sworn virgin}}

===References===
<references/>

===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}

{{topics|en|Gender|LGBTQ|People|Transgender}}

==Afrikaans==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|af|LL-Q14196 (afr)-Oesjaar-transgender.wav}}

===Adjective===
{{head|af|adjective}}

# [[#English|transgender]]

{{C|af|Gender|LGBTQ|Transgender}}

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|nl|en|transgender}}. See also {{m|nl|gender}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|Nl-transgender.ogg}}
* {{IPA|nl|/ˈtrɑns.ɣɛn.dər/|/ˈtrɑns.dʒɛn.dər/}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|trans|gen|der}}

===Adjective===
{{nl-adj|inv|-}}

# {{l|en|transgender}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|g2=f|-s|-}}

# a transgender person

===See also===
* {{l|nl|transseksueel}}

{{C|nl|Gender|LGBTQ|Transgender}}

==German==

===Etymology===
{{ubor|de|en|transgender}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/tʁansˈdʒɛn.dɐ/}}
* {{audio|de|De-transgender.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|de|ɛndɐ|s=3}}
* {{hyph|de|Trans|gen|der}}

===Adjective===
{{de-adj|predonly}}

# [[#English|transgender]]
#: {{cot|de|transgeschlechtlich|transsexuell|transident}}
#* {{quote-journal|de|author=Julika Kott|title=Onlinemagazin von trans Frauen: Ein Gegenschlag|work=Die Tageszeitung: taz|date=2021-09-24|url=https://taz.de/!5800963/|issn=0931-9085|passage=Auf Youtube, Instagram und Twitter schreibt und spricht die Redaktion etwa über vergessene trans Personen aus der Geschichte, trans Rechte und Transphobie. In der Redaktion von ''XY Média'' in Paris sind alle 18 Mitarbeitenden '''transgender'''.}}

====Declension====
{{de-adecl|predonly}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Duden}}
* {{R:DWDS}}

{{C|de|LGBTQ|Transgender}}