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transpopulation en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans- + population.

Meanings

1. The population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.
   • I am not aware of any ethnographic or historical projects whose sole focus is some aspect of a Latina/o transpopulation. 2009, Marcia Ochoa, “Latina/o Transpopulations”, in Marysol Asencio, editor, Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies, page 236:
   • The legislation extended certain ‘rights’ to some within the wider transpopulation to the exclusion of others. 2011, Christie Elan-Cane, “Fighting for legal and social recognition outside the gendered societal structure”, in Alice Purnell, Jed Bland, editors, Trans in the Twenty First Century: Concerning Gender Diversity, page 130:
   • Vaccination against hepatitis A and B is available. We do not know what percentage of the MTF transpopulation have received it and, in fact, how informed they are of its availability. 2013, Michael Shankle, The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service, unnumbered page:
2. The act of altering one or more populations by the introduction of a different population or the removal of a particular subpopulation.
   • The significance of this area for his state's security is seen in Philip's measures to consolidate it: perhaps now his “transpopulation” policy began, whereby Macedonians proper were encouraged to move to live in areas where previously there had been a mixed stock, and perhaps even another marriage-alliance (to Phila, of the Elimiote royal house). 2002, Joseph Roisman, Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, page 77:
   • Transpopulation of these hemopoietic and lymphopoietic tissues back to host-type tissue was induced by the intravenous injection of spleen, but not so far by lymph node, cells isologous with the host. 1963, “8436 A/CONF.15/P/97”, in The Effects of Radiation and Radioisotopes on the Life Processes: […] , US Atomic Energy Commission, →OCLC, page 990:
   • It should be remarked, that as dynasties changed the transpopulation which made Babylon decline was frequently repeated; as under Seleucus, for the benefit of Seleucia, so under the Parthians for the benefit of Ctesiphon, under the Arabs for that of Baghdad. 1866, Rowland Williams, The Hebrew Prophets Translated Afresh from the Original, […] , volume 1, Williams and Norgate, →OCLC, page 297:

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