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trans woman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A transgender or transsexual woman; a woman who was assigned male at birth, that is, a person who was assigned male at birth, but has a female or primarily female gender identity.
   • In “Femininity," Freud describes the limits of psychoanalytic knowledge of the female as follows: “psychoanalysis does not try to describe what a woman is — that would be a task it could scarcely perform — but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.” I was born “male" (whatever the contingencies of that term may be), and I lived my childhood largely (at least visibly) as a boy. But I grew up to be a trans woman.[…] At one point, she spoke of "boys who played the flute in school bands," and I suddenly realized that to have been a boy who played the flute in school bands was a mark of distinction: that to have been that kind of boy included me in a very special and wonderful "sisterhood." I will never again give in to shame about being a flute-playing sissy. I'm proud of the sissy I was, and the trans woman that sissy became. (And I will try, as well, not to be ashamed of the adolescent with hir collar turned up trying so hard to be tough. S/he was struggling hard to survive, and s/he used whatever tools s/he could find.) 1999, Jody Norton, “The Boy Who Grew Up to Be a Woman”, in Matthew Rottnek, editor, Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood, New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 263, 268:

Forms

Coordinates

trans man · cis man · cis woman

Deriveds

trans womanhood

Hypernyms

transfem · woman · trans person

Hyponyms

trans lesbian · passoid · hon

Relateds

transfeminine · MtF · cis woman · trans man · cis man

Synonyms

MtF · MTF · transgender girl · trans girl · transwoman · t-girl · shemale · newhalf · TG girl · transgender woman · trooner · transgirl · M2F · zenana · TS girl · trans-identified male · troon

Translations (39)

mi wahine irawhiti (a transgender or transsexual woman) · yur wergern (a transgender or transsexual woman) · nl transvrouw (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ar عَابِرَة (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ar عَابِرَة جِنْسِيًّا (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ro femeie transsexuală (a transgender or transsexual woman) · sv transkvinna (a transgender or transsexual woman) · es mujer trans (a transgender or transsexual woman) · eo transseksa ino (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ja トランス女性 (a transgender or transsexual woman) · de Transfrau (a transgender or transsexual woman) · yur wrgrn (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ja ニューハーフ (a transgender or transsexual woman) · id transpuan (a transgender or transsexual woman) · mov alyha (a transgender or transsexual woman) · fr femme trans (a transgender or transsexual woman) · eo vir-al-ina transseksulo (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ar مُتَحَوِّلَة (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ka ტრანს-ქალი (a transgender or transsexual woman) · sk trans žena (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ru транс-женщина (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ka ტრანსსექსუალი ქალი (a transgender or transsexual woman) · nn transkvinne (a transgender or transsexual woman) · de Trans-Frau (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ta திருநங்கை (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ne पारलैङ्गिक महिला (a transgender or transsexual woman) · is transkona (a transgender or transsexual woman) · nb transkvinne (a transgender or transsexual woman) · cmn 跨性別女性 /跨性别女性 (a transgender or transsexual woman) · da transkvinde (a transgender or transsexual woman) · hu transz nő (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ar عَابِرة جَنْدَرِيَّا (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ka ტრანსგენდერი ქალი (a transgender or transsexual woman) · pt mulher trans (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ja MtF (a transgender or transsexual woman) · pl transkobieta (a transgender or transsexual woman) · fi transnainen (a transgender or transsexual woman) · ka ტრანსქალი (a transgender or transsexual woman) · new यितामिसा (a transgender or transsexual woman)