How to Use transgender in a Sentence
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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 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 -
As a child, her peers ridiculed King, who had not yet identified as transgender.
— Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 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 -
If transgender women are banned from playing on women's teams, say that.
— Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 24 July 2022 -
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 bill became a flashpoint in the still-burgeoning transgender rights movement.
— Bryan Anderson, ajc, 30 Oct. 2021 -
The hospital is home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the United States.
— BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Betsy Braden, who identified herself as the parent of a transgender student, said her daughter had thrived at the school.
— Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023 -
Her daughter, 28-year-old Brazil Johnson, was a Black transgender woman.
— Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2022 -
The idea that this is just a woman’s movement is a dangerous one and leaves out men, transgender and non-binary people.
— Tarana Burke, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022 -
When one Brown child came out as gay and then as transgender, the family’s reaction was to sputter a little and then hug the young adult and offer support.
— Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023 -
The state lawmakers highlighted the TASB new transgender guidelines.
— Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2023 -
Former President Donald Trump vowed to end gender-affirming care for minors if re-elected in 2024 in an outright attack on the rights of transgender individuals.
— al, 1 Feb. 2023
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