How to Use transgender in a Sentence

transgender

adjective
  • That year marked the first transgender Playmate, and in 2018, the first Playmate with a shaved head.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 30 July 2021
  • Jane and John Doe are the parents of 16-year-old Mary Doe, who is transgender.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Meri's child with Kody, 53, came out as transgender in June.
    Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2022
  • The book explores the journey of a young boy named Aidan coming out as transgender.
    Fox News, 14 June 2022
  • The Tokyo Games are the first time that openly transgender athletes have competed in the Olympics.
    Time, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The bust of Johnson is just one of a few statues of women in the city's parks, Erlick said, and the first to honor a transgender woman.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The transgender athletes in Tokyo all met the testosterone standard.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • As a child, her peers ridiculed King, who had not yet identified as transgender.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Quinn, who came out as transgender last year, was also a member of the Canadian team that won the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
    Josh Dubow, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • Nor is there any recourse for young transgender women who are hereby stripped of their right to play sports.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • Before coming out as transgender, Thomas swam for UPenn's men's team for three years.
    Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Zaya Wade came out as transgender in 2020 with the support of her father and stepmom.
    Alexis Gaskin, Glamour, 6 May 2022
  • Utah is the first state in 2023 to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the past four years, the Times of London has doggedly reported the goings-on at Britain’s main transgender youth clinic.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Once her father come out as transgender, Katy said Zoey promised the dark side the Tur family had known would improve.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2022
  • The basic outline was that a transgender person had been seen in the women’s locker room by a young woman.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Upon his death, it was discovered that De Raylan was a transgender man, and he was buried in a dress in an unmarked grave.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • There are few transgender students who have used the policy.
    cleveland, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The transgender question is no longer a fringe issue but a measure of electability.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Rojas’s face was painted with the pink, light blue, and white transgender flag and a central Star of David to honor his Jewish heritage.
    Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
  • In her first solo release since coming out as transgender in 2021, indie folk star Ezra Furman is ready to get away from all of the bulls–t.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The two leaders have displayed strains, such as over a 2017 bill to prescribe which bathrooms transgender Texans could use.
    Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Farrar, Straus & Giroux) opens in the 1980s, years before its author, Diana Goetsch, came out as transgender.
    Kate Tuttle, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • Schneider is the first transgender woman to make the Tournament of Champions, as well as the first woman to hold such a winning streak.
    Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • An 18-year-old was arrested in Texas months after being charged with the shooting death of a transgender woman in Brookhaven.
    Zachary Hansen, ajc, 5 Aug. 2021
  • If transgender women are banned from playing on women's teams, say that.
    Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • Laurel Hubbard become the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The viral post at the heart of this claim misidentifies an image of a transgender woman as Salvador Ramos, the Uvalde, Texas, shooting suspect.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
  • The state lawmakers highlighted the TASB new transgender guidelines.
    Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Top surgery is performed on some transgender men and nonbinary people to remove breast tissue or augment the breast, enabling them to feel more physically aligned with their gender identity.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023

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