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transexion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /tɹænˈsɛkʃən/
  • /tɹɑːnˈsɛkʃən/

Etymology

From tran- + Latin sexus (“sex”) + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable) Change of sex.
    • But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transexion of hares, if that be true which Cardan and other physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first […] 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
    • Albert Engleman, 'Un cas de transposition de sexes', Revue Métapsychique, no. 27 (January-February 1954): 126-128; Albert Engleman, 'A Case of Transexion upon Viewing a Painting', American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences 9, no. 3/4 2019 February 21, Jake Poller, Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • […] transexion or change from female to male, and hence "from imperfection to perfection"; the transmutation of species in closely allied animals and plants, as horses and asses, dogs and foxes, pheasants and cocks, barley and oats[…] 1950, Osiris: 1950-1936/50:

Forms

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Synonyms

sex change