Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A transgender person who lives as a woman.

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  • noun LGBT A male-to-female transgender or transsexual person.

Etymologies

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trans- +‎ woman

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Examples

  • The “worst-case perspective” is that the transwoman is a man, and thus the woman are being orced to be housed with a man.

    New York To Shut Down Jail For Gays And Trangenders 2006

  • It's also why Lesbians do not ever call a transwoman a woman, because a transwoman dose not have the right to womanhood and the upbringing of womanhood.

    Gay/Lesbian Forum 2009

  • Simple definitions such as what is a transsexual woman / lesbian? still manage to confuse some lesbian and gay men who then amusingly or otherwise call a transwoman or a translesbian a gay man robbing her of her trans identity and or her sexual orientation simultaneously just for a laugh.

    TransGriot 2008

  • One of the reasons is that when I'm out and about, they see 'Black woman' long before they see the 'transwoman' part of my identity.

    International WOC Day: Monica Speaks Renee 2009

  • One of the reasons is that when I'm out and about, they see 'Black woman' long before they see the 'transwoman' part of my identity.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009

  • Because right then the transwoman gets up and goes downstairs without saying a word, clearly expecting us not to notice in the hollering and laughter.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Few online South African newspapers mention this murder; I learnt of it from a comment on a blog that had criticised the blogger slash comedian for his sketch about a transwoman.

    We’re being erased… « Digital immigrant 2009

  • I find transwoman/transman/transperson quite dehumanising.

    trans woman 2009

  • Vicky Fox, a towering transwoman with yellow hair and brown skin, hurls herself dramatically onto the floor and begins contorting about on the weathered tile when I ask to take her picture.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • In the blur, we strike up a conversation with a tall transwoman seated at a table next to ours.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

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