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transsexual

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transsexual, transexual
1. a person who permanently acts the part of and completely identifies with the opposite sex
2. a person who has undergone medical and surgical procedures to alter external sexual characteristics to those of the opposite sex
transsexual [tran′sek·shə·wəl]
(psychology)
An individual whose chromosomes, gonads, and body habitus mark that individual as a member of one sex, but who feels psychically to be of the other sex, with an overwhelming desire for sex reassignment through surgical and hormonal intervention.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bree Osborne is only one of the more recent examples in a five-decades-long pageant of cinematic transsexual characters appearing in American and Western European films that fall along a spectrum from freak-show sexploitation, to earnest depictions of gender identity struggles, to the metaphorical use of transsexualism in exploring sexual, racial, religious, and political attitudes.
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