trans-woman

Noun

trans woman (plural trans women)

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...
   • 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...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...

   Synonyms:

   transgirl, trans girl, TG girl, t-girl, TS girl, M2F, MTF, newhalf, zenana, shemale