Noun

1. A person who thinks that the gender assigned to them at birth is not a correct or complete description of what they feel; a catch-all term that includes transvestites, transsexuals, cross-dressers and others.
2. A person whose gender may be different than that assigned at birth, but are comfortable with their birth physical sex.
3. A transsexual person.
4. The state of being any of such kinds of person.

Verb

1. To alter a person's gender by altering the person's physical sexual characteristics. Non-standard. The verb generally accepted for this process is transition.

See also

• berdache
• drag queen
• ladyboy
• shemale
• transman
• transwoman
• Wikipedia article on transgender