transsexEtymologyFrom trans- + sex.adjTranssexual.“New York, Ohio, and Texas ruled that transsex persons could marry only in the gender role that they had been assigned at birth.”nounTranssexuality, transsexualism; the state of being transsexual. (Compare transgender.)“Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.”verbTo transition (to undergo a transition) from being one sex/gender to being another (especially by sex reassignment surgery). (Compare transgender.)“For quotations using this term, see Citations:transsex.”To transgender; to (cause something to) change from being sexed/gendered in one way to being sexed/gendered in another way.“There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.”