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It may also be used more generically as a term for any transgender person, in which case it may be considered derogatory.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgenderist</ref> | It may also be used more generically as a term for any transgender person, in which case it may be considered derogatory.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgenderist</ref> | ||
At times "transgenderist" refers to a trans person who elects not to undergo any [[surgery]] as part of their [[transition]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Transsexual Workers: an Employer's Guide|year=2003| page=113||last=Walworth|first=Janis|quote=Some cross-gendered individuals who do not have surgery call themselves nonoperative transsexuals; others prefer the term ''transgenderist''.}}</ref> | At times "transgenderist" refers to a trans person who elects not to undergo any [[surgery]] as part of their [[transition]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Transsexual Workers: an Employer's Guide|year=2003| page=113||last=Walworth|first=Janis|quote=Some cross-gendered individuals who do not have surgery call themselves nonoperative transsexuals; others prefer the term ''transgenderist''.}}</ref> This sense of the word was coined by Dr. Virginia Prince, herself a transgenderist, who considered herself "in-between" a transsexual and a crossdresser.<ref>"AEGIS News, No. 4 (June, 1995)." Page 9. Newsletter. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/9c67wm80s (accessed November 04, 2020).</ref> | ||
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