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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Kuehl's SB 1441, which was recently signed by the governor, would require ``any program or activity'' that receives any funding from the state to support homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality or lose its funding. It also ordered the Peel police force-against which a complaint had been laid-to produce a training video for all its members on transsexuality (LifeSiteNews. The Man Who Would Be Queen is the most controversial book on transsexuality since Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire (1979) and is the latest challenge to what already was a fragile relationship between the scientific and the transgender communities. |
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