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 ortranssexual person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The “worst-case perspective” is that the transwoman is a man, and thus the woman are being orced to be housed with a man.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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I find transwoman/transman/transperson quite dehumanising.
trans woman 2009
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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
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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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