transsexualとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From trans- +‎ sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/, /tɹɑːnz-/, /tɹæns-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌtɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/, /ˌtɹæn(t)s-/
• 韻: -ɛkʃuəl
• ハイフネーション: trans‧sex‧ual

形容詞

transsexual (comparative more transsexual, superlative most transsexual)

1. (dated) Of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
2. (dated) Of or relating to such a change.
   • 1983 October 10, “Jet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 31:

     "'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, page 116:

     Stormy […] […] returned from Morocco, where she'd had transsexual 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.

使用する際の注意点

• Although some authors distinguish transsexual (pertaining to physical sex) and transgender (pertaining to gender), transgender is now generally taken to encompass transsexual and has largely displaced it. Some consider transsexual outdated, although some of those who have undergone or wish to undergo SRS still prefer it, or refuse to call themselves transgender. Compare the usage notes at transgender. Neither term should be confused with transvestite (which see for more).

同意語

• transsex (less common), transsexed (uncommon)

派生語

派生した語

• Japanese: トランスセクシャル (toransusekusharu)

名詞

transsexual (plural transsexuals)

1. A transsexual person.
   • 1992 May 8, Tamara Severns, “Open Letter To Michigan Festival Organizers”, in Gay 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-female transsexuals at all future festivals.

   • 1995, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar:

     When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.

   • 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 the transsexual-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!”, in Weekly 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 a transsexual, 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 a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.

   • 2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:

     Being a transsexual 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.

使用する際の注意点

• See usage notes at transgender regarding the use of this word as a noun.

同意語

• TS
• trans person

下位語

• trans man, trans woman

派生語

• homosexual transsexual

関連する語

• transsex
• transsexed
• transgender

参考

• male-to-female
• female-to-male
• intersexual, intersex
• transvestite

参照

Further reading

• Transsexual on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “transsexual”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “transsexual”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “transsexual”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “transsexual”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

• transexuals