Examples of “trans” in a Sentence

noun A person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

• The club offers a friendly evening each month for trans people and their families.
• The event celebrated trans artists and writers.
• She has several trans friends from her support group.

adj Describing a chemical structure in which two similar groups sit on opposite sides of a bond or molecule.

• In the diagram, the trans form has its two matching groups on opposite sides.
• The chemist explained why the trans compound is more stable than the other form.
• The trans isomer has a different melting point from its cis counterpart.