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• n  a person who has undergone a sex change operation
• n  a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex
• s  overwhelmingly desirous of being, or completely identifying with, the opposite sex

• But Savin-Williams says many of the tomboys and flouncy guys we assume to be gay are in reality bisexual, incipiently transsexual or just experimenting.
• It was he who coined the word transsexual, and his new book, The Transsexual Phenomenon (Julian Press; $8.
• Pop culture is rife with transsexual story lines lately.

• transexual

News & Articles

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• Staff Pick: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” the musical
  “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” the musical first hit off-Broadway in 1998. Three years later its director, John Cameron Mitchell, turned it into a movie. After that, the story of Hedwig, an East German transsexual glam rock star set on confronting the man who stole her songs, achieved cult status. Legions of international fans even call themselves Hed-heads.
  June 6, 2013 - Columbus Alive

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Gather.com
  In his end-of-the-year address, Pope Benedict XVI said that "saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction."
• Bill Siksay in Burnaby Now
  Transgender and transsexual people are regularly victims of abuse, harassment and physical violence,Siksay said in a news release.
• Rosario Dawson in CBS News
  The protagonists are not the usual sort of people in musicals,said Rosario Dawson, who plays an HIV-positive heroin addict in "Rent." "Transsexual people with HIV and AIDS, people who are drug addicts, are making a lot of lifestyle choices...