How to Use transgender in a Sentence

transgender

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the third season of the series, which premieres on the streaming service on June 22, Elliot’s character will come out as transgender.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 1 June 2022
  • 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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