transˈsexualism
Also trans-sexualism, transexualism.
[f. trans- 3 + sexualism.]
The state or condition of being transsexual (see transsexual a. 1), manifested in an overwhelming desire to belong to the opposite sex.
| 1953 H. Benjamin in Internat. Jrnl. Sexology Aug. 12/1 Transvestitism..is the desire of a certain group of men to dress as women, or of women to dress as men. It can be..overwhelming, even to the point of wanting to belong to the other sex and correct nature's anatomical ‘error’. For such cases the term Transsexualism seems appropriate. 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Psychotheraphy VIII. 220 Trans⁓sexualism..denotes the intense and often obsessive desire to change the entire sexual status including the anatomical structure. 1963 K. Walker in G. Turtle Over Sex Border 11 Transexualism was only defined with any clarity in 1954. 1969 New Scientist 24 July 183/1 The very difficult clinical problem of trans-sexualism. 1974 Adolescence Spring 71 The increasing rate of transexualism. 1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) iii. 46 It is impossible for an ordinary person to be propelled into the condition of transsexualism, as it has nothing to do with free will or voluntary choice. |
So transˈsexualist n. and a. = transsexual n., a. 1.
| 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Psychotherapy VIII. 220 The transsexualist is always a transvestite but not vice-versa... The transsexualist only lives for the day when his hated sex organs can be removed. 1966 Punch 28 Dec. 968/1 The transexualist..told us, in a pleasant baritone, how happily married ‘she’ was—after surgery. 1976 Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry xi. 211 Transexualists believe that a ‘mistake’ has been made and they really wish to actually become the opposite sex. 1977 A. Sheridan tr. Lacan's {Eacu}crits vi. 209 A trans-sexualist practice, in no way unworthy of being compared with ‘perversion’. |