1983 October 10, “Jet”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name), page31:
"'I'm in the process of going through surgery, a transsexual operation.'" She [Sharon Davis] continued, "He [my partner] said that made no difference to him. And when he said that, just like that, I just stopped crying. I was so happy." They've been together ever since.
2011 January 19, Aleshia Brevard,Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual Journey, Temple University Press,→ISBN, page116:
Stormy[…][…] returned from Morocco, where she'd hadtranssexual surgery.
2016 November 14, Dana Jennett Bevan Ph.D.,Being Transgender: What You Should Know, Bloomsbury Publishing USA,→ISBN:
Before the Iranian Revolution,transsexual treatments were tacitly allowed, but Molkara wanted a ruling that provided clerical legitimacy. After the Revolution, she met with Khomeini and got a fatwa or ruling that transsexual transition was permitted.
Although some authors distinguishtranssexual (pertaining to physicalsex) andtransgender (pertaining togender),transgender is now generally taken to encompasstranssexual and has largely displaced it. Some considertranssexual outdated, although some of those who have undergone or wish to undergoSRS still prefer it, or refuse to call themselvestransgender. Compare the usage notes attransgender. Neither term should be confused withtransvestite (which see for more).[1][2][3]
1992 May 8, Tamara Severns, “Open Letter To Michigan Festival Organizers”, inGay Community News, page 4:
Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-femaletranssexuals at all future festivals.
When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is atranssexual.
a.1998, Myra Love,Reality’s Friends, excerpted in Gertrude M. James Gonzalez and Anne J. M. Mamary (editors),Cultural Activisms: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, SUNY Press (1999),→ISBN,page 107:
He claimed that they had this wonderful and loving relationship in which thetranssexual-to-be had felt that his suitor truly loved him the way he was and didn’t want him to have the surgery,[…]
2003 December 9, Kitty Fine, “How to Tell If Your Fella Wants to Be a Woman!”, inWeekly World News, ISSN 0199-574X,page 14:
Hundreds of women every year are taken completely by surprise when their husbands announce they want to undergo sex-change surgery — and the news is even more shocking when comes, as it often does, from a burly he-man who’d given no clue to his inner girl. ¶ But the signs are definitely there if your husband is dreaming of becoming atranssexual, says a new study by a top sexologist.
a.2006, anonymous, “My Husband’s Secret”, in Grandma Joy,Grandma Joy's Hope for Hurting Women: Healing the Wounds of the Past and Gaining Hope for the Future, Destiny Image Publishers (2006),→ISBN,page 133:
He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became atranssexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.
2012, Patrick Slattery,Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:
Being atranssexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.
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↑1.01.1Thomas E. Bevan (2014),The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism,→ISBN, page42:
The term transsexual was introduced by Cauldwell (1949) and popularized by Harry Benjamin (1966) [...]. The term transgender was coined by John Oliven (1965) and popularized by various transgender people [... including] many transgender people [who] advocated the use of the term much more than Prince. [...] Transsexuals constitute a subset of transgender people.
↑2.02.1Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, editors (2006),Transgender Rights,→ISBN, page 4: “From signifying a subject position between cross-dresser and transsexual, the meaning oftransgender expanded radically in the early 1990s to include them, along with other cross-gender practices and identities.”
TERM TO AVOID: “transgenders,” “a transgender” /Transgender should be used as an adjective, not as a noun. Do not say, “Tony is a transgender,” or “The parade included many transgenders.”[…] BEST PRACTICE: transgender people, a transgender person / For example, “Tony is a transgender man,” or “The parade included many transgender people.”
The digraph⟨ss⟩ is only used between vowels. The matter of the pronunciation oftrans- is specifically mentioned in the Portuguese Orthographic Form of 1943:
1943,Formulário Ortográfico de 1943 [Orthographic Form of 1943][2], Rio de Janeiro, PARÔNIMOS E VOCÁBULOS DE GRAFIA DUPLA [PARONYMS AND DOUBLE-SPELLED WORDS.] (section X):
É sonoro os[…] do prefixotrans, em se lhe seguindo vogal[…]; quando, porém, a êsse prefixo se segue palavra iniciada pors, só se escreve um, que se profere como se fôra dobrado:[…]transoceânico (zo);transecular (se),transubstanciação (su); etc.
The⟨s⟩[…] in the prefixtrans- is voiced if followed by a vowel[…]; however, when this prefix is followed by a word starting in⟨s⟩, only one is written, and it is pronounced as if it were double:[…]transoceânico;transecular,transubstanciação; etc.
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