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- adjective Describes a
transsexual who undergoesgender reassignment from male physical sex characteristics to female. - adjective Describes any
transgender behavior from masculine to feminine. - adjective electronics Describes an
adapter that changes a male end (with pins, usually a plug) of a connection into a female one (usually a socket).
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Examples
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I identify as a male-to-female or male-to-feminine androgynous transgender or genderqueer person in a male body.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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He contends that in polygamous societies the male-to-female ratio tilts in women's favor, allowing females to "mate above their station."
The Cost of Living Jonathan V. Last 2011
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Biological males who wish to live and be recognized as women are called male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals or transsexual women.
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The richer the country, the lower the ratio of male-to-female promiscuity.
My Favorite Example of a Biased Statistic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Jha said 90 percent of all Indians live in states where the male-to-female ratio has become unbalanced. 2011 census data revealed earlier this year show there are seven million fewer girls under the age of six than boys in India.
Researchers: Indians Increasingly Use Abortion to Ensure Male Child 2011
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He joked that the male-to-female ratio was totally out of whack.
'LittleBigPlanet' the big winner at Interactive Achievement Awards 2009
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HBO's latest Real Sports debuts Tuesday with a feature on three sportswriters who had male-to-female gender changes.
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Because they were all at different stages and because some were evidently destined to be more successful at the physical transformations than others, male-to-female and female-to-male paths crossed and re-crossed so many times that it first became hard to remember who began as which and who was wanting to go where, and soon after that, it ceased to matter.
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Two years after telling her family about her male-to-female transition, Reed has returned to her hometown of Helena, Montana, intending to make a documentary about showing up at her high school reunion — no longer the star quarterback she was 20 years earlier, but a poised, pretty, lesbian filmmaker.
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A new international study released Tuesday follows census data that indicates a sharp drop in the ratio of male-to-female children throughout India.
Researchers: Indians Increasingly Use Abortion to Ensure Male Child 2011
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