# transsexual

> English word · Adjective · IPA /tɹænzˈsɛkʃuəl/ · frequency rank #29,498

## Definitions
1. Of a person, having changed, or being in the process of changing, physical sex by undergoing medical treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or optionally sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
2. Of or relating to such a change.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séksusder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Latin sexus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English transsexual
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.

## Common misspellings (15)
`rtanssexual`, `tarnssexual`, `trannssexual`, `transesxual`, `transexual`, `transseuxal`, `transsexaul`, `transsexuall`, `transsexula`, `transsexxual`, `transsxeual`, `trasnsexual`, `trnassexual`, `trranssexual`, `ttranssexual`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/transsexual