transsexualist

English

Etymology

transsexual +‎ -ist

Noun

transsexualist (plural transsexualists)

  1. A transsexual person.
    • 1970, Sexology, volume 37, page 26:
      Most transsexualists are males […] Pseudo-hermaphrodites or other intersexes are not to be confused with transsexualists; transvestites may be transsexualists, but not necessarily.
    • 1992, John Oulton Wisdom, Freud, Women and Society, page 80:
      [M]oreover the femininity would be required for the body only, not for the mind. For if a transvestite wanted to be female all the time, he would be a transsexualist.
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