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transgender

 noun
     
trans‧gen‧der [uncountable]
a general word for people who feel that they belong to the other sex, and not the sex they were born with, and who express this in their sexual behaviour [↪ transsexual]:
the transgender community
transgender issues
—transgendered adjective
—transgenderism noun [uncountable]
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