transsexualism

From transsexual +‎ -ism.

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transsexualism (usually uncountable, plural transsexualisms)

1. Transsexuality; the state of being transsexual.
   • 1997, A. Spencer Bergstedt, Transition and Beyond, page 28:

     Transfolk are not covered in any applicable laws like Title VII or the ADA - in fact, transsexualism is explicitly excluded from the ADA. Therefore, you have no causes of action against an employer based on federal law.

   • 2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:

     Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.

• Harry Benjamin syndrome (dated)
• transsexuality (now more common)
• transsexualness
• transsex (rare)

Borrowed from French transsexualisme. By surface analysis, transsexual +‎ -ism.

transsexualism n (uncountable)

1. transsexualism

transsexualism c

1. transsexualism

• transsexuell

• transsexualism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• transsexualism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH