different between guy vs transgender

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?, IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

Named after Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), an English Catholic hanged for his role in the Gunpowder Plot.

Noun

guy (plural guys)

1. (Britain) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
2. (dated) A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright".
   • 1845, Henry Cockton, The Love Match, W.M. Clark, p. 77:

     “But shan’t I look a guy?”

     “Not a bit of it. Jist the very kick!”

   • 1865, Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 97, p. 316:

     I am always a perfect guy, whatever I wear, when I sit against a red curtain. You mean say that a woman always knows when she’s good-looking, but I am happy to say I know when I look a guy.

   • 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, “As Some Day It May Happen”:

     And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy,

     And who “doesn’t think she dances, but would rather like to try” […].

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 138:

     Why are you so ashamed that her child saw you looking a guy, sprawled on the floor, spilling cakes?

4. (colloquial) A man, fellow.

   Synonyms: dude, fella, homey, bro, bloke, chap; see also Thesaurus:man

   Coordinate terms: gal, broad, dame, girl, jane, woman, bird, chick

   • "Yeah we did," said Stacy.

   • 2016, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The Guardian, 9 March:

     Let’s be honest. “Have I kissed too many guys?” is not a question that mature, sexually active women are likely to be asking Google.

5. (especially in the plural) A person (see usage notes).
6. (colloquial, of animals and sometimes objects) Thing, creature.
7. (colloquial, figuratively) Thing, unit.

8. (informal, term of address) Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.

Usage notes

• In plural, guys may not be completely gender-neutral but it may refer to people of either sex in some circumstances and forms; the greeting “Hey guys”, or any vocative utterance, can generally refer to people of either gender. Referring to a group as “guys” often means a group of men or a mixed-gender group, though usage among American youth may even refer to groups of only women.
• When used of animals, guy usually refers to either a male or one whose gender is not known; it is rarely if ever used of an animal that is known to be female.
• In some varieties of US and Canadian English, you guys revives the distinction between a singular and plural you, much like y'all in other varieties; in this sense, guys may be used for groups of any combination of genders. Cf. usage notes at you guys.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

guy (third-person singular simple present guys, present participle guying, simple past and past participle guyed)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
2. (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin 2004, p. 278:

     Swift and other satirists mercilessly guyed the unlettered self-importance of the peddlars of such soul-food, exposing their humility and self-laceration as an egregious and obnoxious form of self-advertisement (s'excuser, c'est s'accuser).

   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 187:

     Terry Kilmartin [...], applauded for every ‘um’ and ‘ah’, knew that he was being guyed and had the charm to make it funny.

3. (theater, transitive) To play in a comedic manner.

Etymology 2

From Old French guie.

Noun

guy (plural guys or (nonstandard) guies)

1. (obsolete, rare) A guide; a leader or conductor.
3. (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to guide, steady or secure something which is being hoisted or lowered.
4. (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady something prone to shift its position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension-bridge).

Holonyms

• (nautical): cordage

Derived terms

• guy rope
• guy wire

Translations

Verb

guy (third-person singular simple present guys, present participle guying, simple past and past participle guyed)

1. To equip with a support cable.

Translations

See also

• gal

References

• guy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• guy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• yug

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English guy.

Noun

guy m (plural guys, diminutive guytje n)

1. (informal, chiefly Netherlands) guy

   Synonyms: gozer, gast, kerel, sjarel

See also

• boy

English

Etymology

From trans- +? gender. First used in English by John Oliven in 1965, the term had acquired its current senses by the 1990s (by which time it had also largely displaced the earlier term transsexual; see usage notes).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?ænz?d??nd?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?d??nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Adjective

transgender (not comparable)

1. (strictly) Having a gender (identity) which is different from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male at birth but having a female or non-binary gender or vice versa; or, pertaining to such people. (Compare transsexual, and the following sense.)
   • 2010, Jessica Green, "I'm sorry, I'm not lesbian", The Guardian, 3 Mar 2010:

     One head of a small gay charity visibly flinched when I mentioned my boyfriend and has been cold towards me ever since. I've even caught someone staring down my top to see if I'm transgender.

   • 2010, Natasha Lennard, "City Room", New York Times, 7 Apr 2010:

     But the inclusion of the word “trannie” — a pejorative, in some circles — in the title, and the film’s parodic representation of transgender women, has offended many people.

2. (broadly) Not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female; having changed gender identity from male to female or female to male, or identifying with elements of both, or having some other gender identity; or, pertaining to such people. (Compare genderqueer, transsexual.)
   • 1998, John Cloud, "Trans across America", Time, 20 Feb 1998:

     Their first step was to reclaim the power to name themselves: transgender is now the term most widely used, and it encompasses everyone from cross-dressers (those who dress in clothes of the opposite sex) to transsexuals (those who surgically "correct" their genitals to match their "real" gender).

3. (of a space) Intended primarily for transgender people.
   • 2001, Walter O. Bockting, Sheila Kirk, Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care, page 46:

     In Boston, no AIDS prevention messages are posted at the primary drag queen and transgender bar.
4. (of a space) Available for use by transgender people (in addition to non-transgender people).
   • 2002 October 2, Boston Globe, Group wants transgender bathrooms for UMASS, quoted in 2010, Sheila L. Cavanagh, Queering Bathrooms ?ISBN
   • 2010, Harvey Molotch, Laura Noren, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, page 199:

     Why the sudden outcry for transgender bathrooms?

   • 2013, William Keith, Christian O. Lundberg, Public Speaking: Choice and Responsibility:

     In contrast, in a democratic conversation or dialogue, the speaker would begin by identifying the larger public issues that connect to the availability of transgender bathrooms: equality, civil rights, […]

Usage notes

• The term transgender was coined in 1965 and popularized in the late 1970s, and by the 1990s it had largely displaced the older, narrower term transsexual. Transsexual is now often considered outdated although some people still prefer it; see its entry for more. Neither term should be confused with transvestite (which see for more).
• For the usage of this word (and similar adjectives) as a noun, see below.

Hypernyms

• LGBT
• LGBT+

Hyponyms

Synonyms

• TG (abbreviated form)
• trans (abbreviated form)
• trans* (abbreviated form, broad sense)
• transgendered (uncommon, offensive)

Antonyms

• cisgender

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Japanese: ????????? (toransujend?)

Translations

Noun

transgender (usually uncountable, plural transgenders)

1. (countable, now often offensive) A transgender person.
   • 2005, Walter Bockting & Eric Avery, Transgender Health and HIV Prevention, page 116:

     In a patriarchal society in which machismo rules, MTF transgenders represent a challenge to traditional masculinity due to their renouncing of the male position of social power.

   • 2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts (page 70)

     This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularly nullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.

   • 2015, Helen Davies, Transgender woman forced to move house after death threats and knife in her front door (in The Liverpool Echo)

     Nat spent years being victimised as a male to female transgender but was too scared to report it.

2. (uncountable, rare) Transgenderism; the state of being transgender. (Compare transsex.)
   • 2007, Alison Stone, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy ?ISBN, page 41

     Before we can answer this question, we need to consider two other phenomena – transsex and transgender – which also expose the muddle within conventional categories of sex.

Usage notes

• In Western countries, many transgender people consider the use of transgender (and similar adjectives) as a noun to be offensive, and several guides advise against such usage. "A transgender man" (for a man who was assigned the female sex at birth) or "a transgender woman" (for the reverse) is frequently more appropriate.

Hypernyms

• LGBT

Coordinate terms

• two-spirit, berdache
• hijra

Translations

Verb

transgender (third-person singular simple present transgenders, present participle transgendering, simple past and past participle transgendered)

1. (uncommon) To change the gender of; (used loosely) to change the sex of. (Compare transsex.)
   • 2005, Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, Jyl J. Josephson, Gender and American Politics ?ISBN, pages 15 and 205:

     […] and one that is still dominated by male nominees, women nominees might be seen as either contributing to the regendering, or the transgendering, of the Cabinet.

     […]

     This chapter examines women secretaries-designate in terms of their contributions to regendering or transgendering a cabinet office, to a gender desegregation or integration of the cabinet.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:transgender.

Usage notes

• In Western countries, many transgender people consider the use of transgender (and similar adjectives) as a verb in reference to transgender individuals to be offensive, much the same as its use as a noun. "A transgender man" (for a man who was assigned the female sex at birth) or "a transgender woman" (for a woman who was assigned the male sex at birth) is frequently more appropriate.

Related terms

See also

• LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA
• crossdress; drag
• SRS
• intersex
• acault
• sworn virgin

References

Afrikaans

Adjective

transgender

1. transgender

Dutch

Etymology

From English transgender. See also gender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr?ns.??n.d?r/, /?tr?ns.d??n.d?r/

Adjective

transgender (invariable, not comparable)

1. transgender

See also

• transseksueel