Definitions
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- noun One who
transitions .
Etymologies
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This is the only way an early transitioner can have children.
Kim's Mirror Image Zoe Brain 2007
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This is the only way an early transitioner can have children.
Archive 2007-01-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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Basically they group Linux users into broad categories experimenter, follower, application, geek, transitioner to help "better understand the marketing opportunities".
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He separates transwomen into two categories: the “homosexual transsexual,” an early transitioner, a formerly effeminate gay men who wants to be attractive to men; and the “autogynephilic” transsexual, a late-transitioner, always attracted to women, who fetishize female genitalia and want to possess them.
Bisexuality “revisited” within a NYT article and GLAAD’s response 2005
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You will no longer have to become a "switcher", you can become a "gradual transitioner"; it is not as snappy, but it is more attractive.
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You will no longer have to become a "switcher", you can become a "gradual transitioner"; it is not as snappy, but it is more attractive.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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On the other hand, we have the medical model, where therapists, doctors, and care-givers act as gatekeepers to transition resources, and the goal is to correct a sort of "cosmic irony" such that the transitioner can lead a mainstreamed, normal life in the role of their chosen gender.
The Bilerico Project 2010
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Often found in online groups, trans-exclusive spaces, and other sympathetic avenues, these people see our transition as exempt from the medical model, and wish that more decision-making power could be put into the hands of the transitioner.
The Bilerico Project 2010
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"It would be an interesting project to pose the E. Broadway case to the laws in other countries and states and see how they would likely address this sort of fatal negligence." transitioner said:
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I don't mean to pre-empt your story, Piny, by these questions, and obviously every re-transitioner's story is different.
feminist blogs piny 2009
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