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"Doomella" <doomella@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> What are you, a burr? You're getting really annoying, but sure, I'll 
> play...
> <yawn>
> 1. Where's the word "pre-op" in there? A transsexual is somebody who's had
> the
> 2. If someone with an A cup is going in for DD implants, she's still an
> A-cup till she's post-op. I guess I should call her a pre-op DD cup.

The term "transsexual" is used to refer to someone who is going to have the 
surgery as well as someone who has had the surgery.

      trans�sex�u�al     Pronunciation Key  (trns-sksh-l)
      n.
        1.. One who wishes to be considered by society as a member of the 
opposite sex.
        2.. One who has undergone a sex change.

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      trans�sexu�al adj.
      trans�sexu�al�ism or trans�sexu�ali�ty (-l-t) n.

      Source: The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, 
Fourth Edition
      Copyright � 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
      Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


trans�sex�u�al (trns-sksh-l)
n.

  1.. A person with the external genitalia and secondary sexual 
characteristics of one sex, but whose personal identification and 
psychosocial configuration is that of the opposite sex.
  2.. A person who has undergone a sex change.
adj.
  1.. Of or relating to such a person.
  2.. Relating to medical and surgical procedures designed to alter a 
person's external sexual characteristics so they resemble those of the 
opposite sex.


      Source: The American Heritage� Stedman's Medical Dictionary
      Copyright � 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by 
Houghton Mifflin Company.


Main Entry: trans�sex�u�al
Pronunciation: (')tran(t)s-'sek-sh(-&)-w&l, -'sek-sh&l
Function: noun
: a person who has a psychological urge to belong to the opposite sex and to 
live as a member of the opposite sex and who may be motivated by the urge to 
acquire the necessary physical appearance (as by surgery or hormone use) or 
to adopt the social role typical of the opposite sex -transsexual 
adjective -trans�sex�u�al�ism /-w&-"liz-&m, -sh&-"liz-/ 
noun -trans�sex�u�al�i�ty /-"sek-sh&-'wal-&t-E/ noun plural -ties



      Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, � 2002 Merriam-Webster, 
Inc.


Sorry to be a "burr," but I tend to respond to ignorance that way.

-- 
Jennifer Usher 


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