transwoman

See also: trans woman

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ woman or trans +‎ woman.

Noun

transwoman (plural transwomen)

1. Alternative spelling of trans woman
   • 2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity:

     She had been attracted to Sharon from the time they met, but had not felt comfortable with the idea of dating a transwoman.

   • 2010, Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality:

     A transwoman is thus required to fashion her own body as a blank in order to gain a document that is not itself a blank; the document will not speak her sex until her body fails to.

   • 2012, Nicholas M. Teich, Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue:

     Conversely, if you are a lesbian-identified transwoman who was legally married to a woman prior to transition, some people may claim your union is now illegal because it is presently a same-sex marriage.

   • 2014 February 13, Martha Mendoza, quoting Brielle Harrison, “Facebook offers new gender options for users”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-09‎^[2]:

     “There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female. On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.
     “All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it’s kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,” she said. “This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is.”

Usage notes

• See usage notes about trans woman.

Further reading

• “transwoman”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “transwoman”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• transwoman, trans woman at Google Ngram Viewer