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transsexual

 noun
     
trans‧sex‧u‧al [countable]
a man who wants to be a woman and has medical treatment to make him into one, or a woman who wants to be a man and has medical treatment to make her into one [↪ transvestite]
—transsexual adjective
—transsexualism noun [uncountable]
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