For Transmen
- Agule (Lugbara African word for a female-born priest who lives as a male)
- Brumaiwi (Atsugewi Native American word for "transman")
- Drag butch (Butch lesbian who passes as a heterosexual male on a regular basis)
- Drag king
- Ex-woman (Defines one's manhood as an acquired characteristic)
- Feminine impersonator (A person with XX chromosomes living as a female who feels that their female gender presentation is false)
- FTM (Short for Female-to-Male)
- F2M (Short for Female-to-Male)
- Hwami (Mohave Native American word, also spelled "hwame." A hwami was believed to have magical powers, especially including good luck at gambling; a hwami who seduced a pregnant woman would become the father of her child. "If a pregnant woman dreamed of masculine implements, such as arrow-feathers, her female child could become a hwame."—Midnight Sun, Anishnawbe Native American, as quoted in Gary Bowen's Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Katsotse (Zuni Native American word for "transman")
- Kurami (Derived from "kwe'rhaame" below, and now used by non-Native Americans throughout the New England area of the U.S.A.)
- Kwe'rhaame (Yuma Native American word for "transman")
- Male impersonator
- Ntalha (Flathead Native American word for "transman")
- Posestra (In Albanian culture, a woman who adopts a male cultural role and is accepted as a member of the community as a man on the condition that she vows to remain a virgin.)
- Sakwo'mapi akikiwan (Blackfeet Native American term literally meaning "boy-girl")
- Shinjuku boy (A male impersonator working in Tokyo's Shinjuku district)
- Thon (Means "a woman impersonating a man"; derived from the Cajun word for "tunafish," apparently referring to "something fishy")
- Trannyboy
- Trannyfag
- Trannyguy
- Trannydude
- Transchap
- Transdude
- Transfag
- Transfellow
- Transgentleman
- Transguy
- Transman
- Warhameh (Cocopa Native American word for "transman")
- Winkte winyan (Sioux Native American: a woman who either lives full time as a the opposite sex or maintains two differently gendered identities, one male and one female, with a different name, wardrobe, and family for each gender. "Winkte" is a general Sioux term for such cross-gendered behavior among both male-born and female-born individuals, whereas "winkte winyan" specifies "female-born." It was more common for winktes to be male-born. Also, the Lakota Sioux revered winktes as sacred, but the Dakota Sioux ceremonially disowned and condemned them.)
- WTM (Short for "Woman-to-Man"; intended to emphasize the social rather than the physical aspects of the transition)
- W2M (Variant spelling of "WTM" above)
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- See also: For genderbending or genderbreaking people
- And on the Sexuality.org website, see: "A Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women" by Gary Bowen, from which many of the foreign-language words listed here are taken.
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