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Answer for the clue "Taking on a new identity, in a way ", 11 letters:
transgender

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Word definitions for transgender in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Transgender people are people who have a gender identity , or gender expression, that differs from their assigned sex . Transgender people are sometimes called transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another. Transgender ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context narrowly of a person English) Having a gender which is the different from one's natal sex: being male-assigned but having a female gender or vice versa. (qualifier: Compare ''transsexual'', and the following sense.) 2 (context broadly of a person ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1988, from trans- + gender (n.). Related: Transgendered .

Usage examples of transgender.

The femme self gives the CD an identity and membership within the transgender community.

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.

It became clear to many in the late 1970s that while Tri-Ess was good for opening and maintaining CD clubs at the local level, its declared intention of serving only the heterosexual CD prevented it from meeting the needs of others in the transgender community.

Support groups, annual conventions, and the CD nightlife have become an important part of the transgender community.

All of this talk of gender can make the transgender community a boring and contentious place.

Second International Conference of Transgender Law and Employment Policy.

Manus and her new husband about how she met Brandy years before all of us, in some transgender support group.

Therefore we are related through a three-level direct transgender line, in the second degree.

Wicca, New Age philosophy, transgender studies, and of course, writing.

Others within the transgendered community have offered a different term which they feel speaks more precisely to their situation.

Saturday night to honor those who have labored on behalf of the transgendered community.

The purpose of this unique event is to discuss the state of current laws as they relate to the transgendered and to help to formulate more enlightened laws that affirm the rights of such people.

In addition to being a TG bulletin board, Cross-Connection is also an Internet server for those wishing to cruise the transgendered boards worldwide.

Just as genetic engineering is forcing us to reconfigure our ideas about medicine, ethics, agriculture, and manufacturing, so, too, are people such as entrepreneurs, artists, and the transgendered forcing us to reconfigure our ideas about the economy, culture, and gender.