Transgender definition

Transgender means a person whose gender identity (i.e., internal sense of feeling male or female) is different from the person’s assigned sex at birth.

Transgender means a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their anatomical sex. A transgender girl or woman is a girl or woman whose birth sex was male but who understands herself to be female. A transgender boy or man is a boy or man whose birth sex was female but who understands himself to be male.

Transgender means having a gender identity or gender expression that differs from societal expectations based on gender assigned at birth.

Examples of Transgender in a sentence

• American Psychological Association, “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People,” American Psychologist 70, no.

• See American Psychological Association, “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People” (2015); apa.org/practice/guidelines/ transgender.pdf.

• See also Jason Rafferty, “Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents,” Pediatrics (Oct.

• Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, “Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 4—Brain Sex Theory” (Apr.

• We are living in what some have called the “transgender moment.” See also Ryan Anderson, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment (New York: Encounter Books, 2018), p.

More Definitions of Transgender

Transgender means having a gender identity that is different than the person’s gender assigned at birth.

Transgender describes an individual whose gender identity is different from the individual’s assigned sex. “Transgender boy” and “transgender male” refer to an individual assigned the female sex at birth who has a male gender identity. An individual can express or assert a transgender gender identity in a variety of ways, which may but do not always include specific medical treatments or procedures. Medical treatments or procedures are not considered a prerequisite for one’s recognition as transgender. For purposes of this Agreement, a “transgender student” is a student who consistently and uniformly asserts a gender identity different from the student’s assigned sex, or for which there is documented legal or medical evidence that the gender identity is sincerely held as part of the student’s core identity.

Transgender means a person whose gender identity or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the sex assigned at birth.

Transgender means a person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Transgender means a person whose gender identity (i.e., internal sense of feeling male or female) is different from the person’s assigned sex at birth as established in 28 C.F.R.

Transgender means an adjective describing a person whose gender identity does not coorespond to their assigned sex at birth.

Transgender means having a gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex one was assigned at birth, regardless of whether one has undergone or is in the process of undergoing gender-affirming care.