Transgender is an English word with synonyms like transgendered or homosexual. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Transgender in a sentence
Related words
Transgender meaning
- Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender.
- Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary identity).
Synonyms of Transgender
Using Transgender
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender. | Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-gender. | Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary identity).
- Useful related words include: transgendered, homosexual.
- In the example corpus, transgender often appears in combinations such as: transgender people, of transgender, the transgender.
Context around Transgender
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Transgender
- In this selection, "transgender" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anti, barred, barring, people, students and women stand out and add context to how "transgender" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include have barred transgender women and and a controversial transgender youth sports. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "transgender" sits close to words such as bias, detectives and distant, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with transgender
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Advocates for transgender athletes said it didn’t go far enough in protecting transgender students from school policies that could unfairly exclude them. (23 words)
The administration and Democratic-led states have extended protections for transgender people, including a new federal regulation that seeks to protect transgender students. (23 words)
Meet Lester Archival, a 28-year-old transgender woman who has shattered barriers as the first transgender Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Chairman of Budla-an. (24 words)
The NBA decided to pull the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte over anti-transgender legislation in North Carolina, but never considered that option in Utah even amid the passage of a controversial transgender youth sports bill last year. (40 words)
Proposed changes in federal rules regarding transgender students’ participation in sports drew a sharp rebuke from the sponsor of legislation passed by the Utah Legislature that sought to enact a ban on transgender girls participating in girls sports. (38 words)
At least 24 states have barred transgender women and girls from participating in some women’s and girls’ sports, while at least 11 have barred transgender women and girls from women’s and girls’ bathrooms in public schools. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Despite supporting restrictions on various aspects of transgender people’s freedom to live, unimpeded, according to their gender identity, a majority of Americans claim to oppose discrimination against members of the transgender community.
House Bill 183 extends further than most transgender bathroom bans nationwide by not only affecting K-12 school students but also barring transgender college and university students from using bathrooms aligning with their gender identity.
Meet Lester Archival, a 28-year-old transgender woman who has shattered barriers as the first transgender Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Chairman of Budla-an.
Paddon said on Transgender Day of Visibility, the province and all of Canada recognize and celebrate the transgender, non-binary and Two-Spirit communities.
Preston worries that months from now, the investigation might halt, but the attorney general’s office would still have a comprehensive list of transgender patients—an idea that’s sparking fear, particularly among transgender youth.
Proposed changes in federal rules regarding transgender students’ participation in sports drew a sharp rebuke from the sponsor of legislation passed by the Utah Legislature that sought to enact a ban on transgender girls participating in girls sports.
The NBA decided to pull the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte over anti-transgender legislation in North Carolina, but never considered that option in Utah even amid the passage of a controversial transgender youth sports bill last year.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that the transgender community is under attack just days after a transgender shooter murdered six people at a Christian elementary school on Monday.
According to the broadsheet, Camden Council has also introduced transgender awareness sessions and has set aside dates to celebrate “Bi Visibility Day” and “Transgender Day of Remembrance”.
Advocates for transgender athletes said it didn’t go far enough in protecting transgender students from school policies that could unfairly exclude them.
At least 24 states have barred transgender women and girls from participating in some women’s and girls’ sports, while at least 11 have barred transgender women and girls from women’s and girls’ bathrooms in public schools.
Billionaire Elon Musk said his estranged transgender daughter was figuratively "killed" after she received gender-affirming care, prompting him to adopt gender-skeptic and anti-transgender views.
Catholic voters, like most of the electorate, consider the economy by far the most pressing issue facing the country and oppose transgender surgeries for minors and transgender males competing in women’s sports.
Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation’s highest court, representing families who say Tennessee’s ban on health care for transgender minors leaves their children terrified about the future.
DeWine said in his Dec. 29 statement about the veto that he had heard from numerous parents who expressed fear that without transgender medical interventions, their transgender-identifying children would commit suicide.
He spoke critically of transgender athletes, a fallback from his rallies that draws significant applause, and falsely claimed that a female Olympic boxer who is not transgender had undergone a gender transition.
Meanwhile across the world, Miss Fabulous Laos 2022, a beauty pageant competition that allowed transgender women to participate, has been discontinued after the country’s ruling party banned transgender people from entering any beauty pageants.
Ms. Jaquays also became a transgender activist who served for a time as the creative director of the Transgender Human Rights Institute in Seattle.
The administration and Democratic-led states have extended protections for transgender people, including a new federal regulation that seeks to protect transgender students.
The report said Robinson, who has a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, referred to himself as a “black Nazi,” expressed support for reinstating slavery and praised Adolf Hitler.
Common combinations with transgender
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- transgender people 27×
- of transgender 23×
- the transgender 18×
- and transgender 14×
- for transgender 12×
- transgender women 12×
- transgender community 11×
- transgender and 10×
- transgender woman 9×
- as transgender 9×