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How to pronounce “transgender”
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Pronunciation guide for transgender
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of transgender with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story
Look -- I'm transgender, it's not that big a deal.
- Definition summary
- (loosely) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender. [from 1974]
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How to pronounce transgender
The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story

Look -- I'm transgender, it's not that big a deal.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “transgender”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (loosely) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender. [from 1974]
- (loosely) Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
- Of or pertaining to transgender people (adjective sense 1), or their experiences or identity.
- Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
- Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only non-transgender people.
- (dated) Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”). [from mid 20th c.]
- [Noun]
- (countable, now often offensive) A transgender person
- (uncountable, rare) Synonym of transgenderism (“the state of being transgender”).
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To change the gender of (someone).
- (transitive, loosely) To change the sex of (someone).
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