"transfixer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:",
          "text": "When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer \"the homosexual\" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement. To be stuck by that label, it seemed to me, would mean having to live my life as a case history in a medical text book.",
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        "Something that transfixes."
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