A person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex

Usage examples of transsexual.

He went on to admit that his greatest disappointments were his children: his thirty-year-old son, now a preoperational transsexual, and his daughter, who had recently married into an Afro-American Urban Heritage Commune and had become the seventh wife of Chief Amumba-9.

Some in the transgender community point out that there are nonoperative transsexuals.

In Houston, Phyllis Randolph Frye and others are presenting the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy, an annual symposium on the law as it relates to cross-dressers, transgenderists, and transsexuals.

Some drag queens, transgenderists, and transsexuals use illegally purchased hormones without medical supervision.

While Christine Jorgensen was not the first male to undergo sexual reassignment surgery -- the Danish painter Einar Wegener had the operation in 1933 and changed his name to Lill Elbe -- she was the first transsexual to receive world-wide publicity.

Born transsexuals typically declare their true feelings at an early age and consequently pursue sexual reassignment surgery in their early twenties.

A respected Texas businessman had strangled his wife with her aerobics unitard and run off with his transsexual lover.

Grace would have thought Harmony a cross-dresser or even a transsexual, if it hadn't been for a throwaway comment she had once made about having a miscarriage when she was fifteen and never getting pregnant again.

Hoping it was someone else under scrutiny, he looked across the aisle at the three transsexuals giggling and whispering and making a big deal out of eating french fries.

You felt love for the drag queens and the transvestites and the transsexuals.

It's about expanding marriage to include polygamy, polyamory, transsexual marriages, and open marriage.

Every Saturday night the pre-op transsexual in the apartment below would get maudlin and play torch songs until four in the morning.

Even at best she was an insecure vessel of life-force, maladapted, unhelped by her transsexual conversion.