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Transwoman Wikipedia

Transwomen or trans-women are transsexual or transgender people who were gender assignment|assigned male at birth (or, if intersexuals|intersexuality, later), and, feeling that this is not an accurate or complete description of themselves and therefore (usually) gender identity|identify, and live as female.

Transwomen who feel that their change of gender, and any medical treatments, have been completed tend to prefer to be called simply women and consider transwoman or male-to-female transsexual to be terms that should only used for persons who are still transitioning. Those who do, describe themselves as post-op transsexuals as distingusihed from pre-op. Others dislike the term transsexual and prefer to call themselves transgendered (or transgender) woman or simply use transgender as transgender.

Not all transwomen decide to have or desire to have Sex_reassignment_surgery_male-to-female|gender reassignment surgery. They may refer to themselves as non-op.

Last Modified:   2005-12-19