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Transformers: Titans Return

Transformers: Titans Return is a 2017 Machinima-Hasbro animated web series, the second Prime Wars Trilogy chapter, in which Trypticon awakens on Cybertron; 10 episodes, premiered on go90.

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Transformers: War for Cybertron is a 2010 third-person shooter by High Moon Studios and Activision, set on Cybertron, with separate Autobot and Decepticon campaigns and a 2012 sequel.

Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy

Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy is a Netflix animated series (Siege, Earthrise, Kingdom, 2020-2021, 18 episodes) by Hasbro, Rooster Teeth, and Polygon Pictures, depicting the Autobot-Decepticon war's end on Cybertron and crash-landing on Earth with Beast Wars characters.

Transforming growth factor beta

Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) is a secreted cytokine produced by nearly every tissue in the human body that regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, wound healing, and immunity, and is heavily targeted by experimental cancer drugs.

Transforming protein C-ets-2

Transforming protein C-ets-2 (ETS2), UniProt P15036, is a 469-aa human transcription factor on chromosome 21q22, founding ETS-family member from retrovirus E26, binding GGAA/T motifs, regulated by Thr-72 ERK phosphorylation, implicated in cancer, IBD, and Down syndrome leukemia.

Transfusion medicine

Transfusion medicine: medical specialty covering blood collection, compatibility testing, component therapy, and transfusion safety; rooted in Landsteiner's 1900 ABO discovery, now spanning genotyping, patient blood management, and cellular therapies.

Transfusion-related acute lung injury

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is acute noncardiogenic pulmonary edema with hypoxemia during or within 6 hours of blood transfusion, caused mainly by donor anti-leukocyte antibodies or a two-hit neutrophil priming mechanism, classified since 2019 as Type I or Type II, and reduced by male-donor plasma policies.

Transgaz (Romania)

Transgaz is the Romanian national gas transmission company, the only licensed transmission system operator in Romania. Created in 2000 from Romgaz, it also operates Moldova's gas transmission system through its subsidiary Vestmoldtransgaz.

Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity differing from their sex assigned at birth; the term is an adjective, including non-binary identities. Key facts: gender-affirming hormone therapy may improve quality of life and reduce depression and anxiety; legal gender recognition effects are uncertain; discrimination is pervasive.

Transgender flag

Transgender pride flag, Monica Helms 1999 design, five light blue, pink, and white stripes, debuted Phoenix Pride 2000, symmetrical layout, original at Smithsonian NMAH, public domain.

Transgender health care misinformation

Transgender health care misinformation: false claims about gender-affirming care, also called disinformation when intentional. Five documented themes, ROGD theory, regret-rate myths, and role in US care bans.

Transgender history

Transgender history studies gender-nonconforming people across cultures and eras, from Mesopotamia and Elagabalus to Hirschfeld's 1919 institute, Jorgensen's 1952 transition, Stonewall-era activism, and the academic field founded around 2002-2008.

Transgender people in sports

Transgender people in sports: eligibility of trans athletes in men's and women's categories, from the IOC's 2003 Stockholm Consensus and 2015 testosterone rule to the 2026 sex-based ban and NCAA and World Athletics policies.

Transgender pregnancy

Transgender pregnancy: pregnancy carried by trans men and other transmasculine or nonbinary people assigned female at birth, or via assisted reproduction for trans women. Key data: gravidity 5.6-8.5%, testosterone not contraception, miscarriage 31.6-40%.

Transgender representation in the Drag Race franchise

Transgender representation in the Drag Race franchise covers trans and non-binary contestants across RuPaul's Drag Race and spin-offs, from early exclusion and the Monica Beverly Hillz and Peppermint controversies to winners Kylie Sonique Love, Angele Anang, and Gottmik's first trans man casting.

Transgender rights in the United States

Transgender rights in the United States: legal status under federal law (Bostock, Section 1557), state policy divergence tracked by MAP, the 2020s wave of restrictive state legislation, identity documents, and United States v. Skrmetti.

Transgender sexuality

Transgender sexuality, also called trans sexuality, is the study and lived experience of how transgender people experience sexual orientation, attraction, behavior, and sexual function during transition.

Transgender voice surgery

Transgender voice surgery (gender-affirming phonosurgery, voice feminization surgery) raises vocal pitch for transgender women via Wendler glottoplasty, cricothyroid approximation, LAVA, or LRG, often combined with voice therapy; glottoplasty gives the largest, most stable f0 gains.

Transgenerational trauma

Transgenerational trauma (intergenerational, historical trauma) is transmission of trauma effects to descendants without direct exposure. First described 1966 in Holocaust survivors' children; key findings include FKBP5 methylation changes and parental PTSD as predictor; epigenetic inheritance in humans remains unproven.

Transgenes

Transgenes: genes introduced into an organism by gene transfer techniques (MeSH D019076, 1996). Carried by transgenic organisms; key issues are transgene silencing, integration site effects, and GMO regulation versus cisgenic and gene-edited crops.

Transgenesis

Transgenesis: artificial introduction of foreign DNA from another species into an organism's genome, producing transgenic animals and plants. Invented via pronuclear microinjection in mice around 1980; uses viral vectors and transposons; distinct from cisgenesis and genome editing.

Transglutaminase

Transglutaminase (EC 2.3.2.13, protein-glutamine γ-glutamyltransferase), also called meat glue, is a calcium-independent enzyme from Streptomyces mobaraensis that cross-links glutamine and lysine residues, used to restructure meat, dairy, and bakery foods.

Transglutaminase-mediated antibody conjugation

Transglutaminase-mediated antibody conjugation is an enzymatic bioconjugation method in which microbial transglutaminase from Streptomyces mobaraensis attaches drugs, fluorophores, or other payloads to antibodies, chiefly to build homogeneous antibody-drug conjugates.

Transgrediens et progrediens palmoplantar keratoderma

Transgrediens et progrediens palmoplantar keratoderma, or Greither disease (OMIM 133200), is a rare autosomal dominant KRT1-related diffuse PPK that spreads beyond palms and soles and worsens with age.

Transgressive art

Transgressive art deliberately violates moral, social, or aesthetic boundaries of its era; key examples include Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and the 1990 Mapplethorpe museum trial, with censorship as its recurring counterpart.

Transgressive fiction

Transgressive fiction is a literary genre whose characters cross moral, sexual, legal, and social boundaries; the term was coined in 1993 by Michael Silverblatt, and the genre consolidated in the early 1990s with works by Ellis, Cooper, Self, and Homes.

Transgressive systems tract

The transgressive systems tract is a subdivision of a depositional sequence in sequence stratigraphy, comprising deposits accumulated from the onset of coastal transgression until maximum transgression of the coast.

Transgrid

Transgrid is the privately held company that operates the high voltage electricity transmission network in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, covering about 11,500 kilometers of lines.

Transhiatal esophagectomy

Transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) is an operation that removes the esophagus through the diaphragmatic hiatus and a neck incision without opening the chest, performed mainly for esophageal cancer.

Transhumance

Transhumance is the regular seasonal movement of livestock herds among fixed points, a form of pastoralism distinct from nomadism; practiced vertically in mountains and horizontally across climatic zones, UNESCO-inscribed in 2023, with movements over 800 km in drylands.