trans woman

trans woman (plural trans women)

1. A transgender or transsexual woman; i.e., a woman who was assigned male at birth.

• Trans woman is often spelled with a space, with trans as an adjective modifying the noun woman, similar to Asian woman, tall woman, fat woman, etc.[1][2][3][4] The unspaced spelling transwoman is sometimes used interchangeably,[2] including by a few transgender people.[5] However, it is often associated with views (notably gender-critical feminism) that hold that transgender women are not women,[1][3][4] and thus require a separate word from woman to describe them. For this reason many transgender people find transwoman offensive.[3][4]

• transwoman, trans-woman (proscribed)
• trans womyn (transfeminist spelling, especially of the plural)

• transgirl, trans girl
• TG girl (slang), t-girl (slang), TS girl (slang), M2F
• shemale (derogatory, offensive, proscribed, chiefly in pornography)
• trans-identified male (derogatory, offensive, proscribed)

• trans person

• trans lesbian

• trans man, cis man, cis woman

• transfeminine
• MtF