2010, Sally Hines, Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity, Taylor & Francis (→ISBN), page 134:
The findings of this study highlight the differing extent to which (in)visibility may impact upon transmale and transfemale employees. The data showed that there is a difference in reported levels of passing between transmen and transwomen.
2010, Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press (→ISBN), page 102:
Rather, it grew out of my artistic and spiritual explorations. An artist myself, I had just discovered the aesthetic beauty of the transfemale body.
2011, Karen Ross, The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 326:
Transmale experiences were slower to enter public visibility than transfemale experiences, a dynamic that is popularly attributed to the comparative ease of biological females presenting as males versus biological males presenting as females ...
2010, Lynda Johnston, Robyn Longhurst, Space, Place, and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities, Rowman & Littlefield (→ISBN), page 120:
The pageant showcases transfemales who Tongans refer to as "fakaleiti or leiti, who form a small but visible minority in Nuku'alofa."
2013, Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, The Feminist Press at CUNY (→ISBN), page 289:
But, to speak more generally, the facts are oozing out in evidence and must be faced: until now, cis-females (and to a lesser degree, some transfemales and certain eroticized cis-males) were the ones who performed the task of making the world's cock hard.
2016, Loren S Schechter, Surgical Management of the Transgender Patient, Elsevier Health Sciences (→ISBN)
Still other researchers have examined autopsied brains of transfemales and noted differences in the hypothalamus, an area of the brain involved in sexual behavior.
