For Transwomen
- Chick with dick (For non-op and pre-op transwomen who are comfortable calling their sex organs by the male name for them)
- Drag queen
- Eonist (After the Chevalière d'Eon, a 19th century male-born person who wore male clothes in order to pass as a female-born person supposedly trying to pass as a man. The French government, believing that d'Eon had been born female, ordered her/him to cease wearing male clothing, and after that s/he obediently wore female clothing exclusively until her death, after which her/his female roommate discovered that her/his physical sex had been male.)
- Ex-man (Defines one's womanhood as an acquired characteristic)
- Faka fafini (Polynesian term for a male-born person who lives as a woman; such people are traditionally accepted by Polynesian society)
- Female impersonator
- Ghoti (Old Norse word for a transgendered priestess)
- He Hwa (A legendary Zuni African transwoman)
- Lhamana (Zuni Native American word for "transwoman")
- Masculine impersonator (A person with XY chromosomes living as a male who feels that their male gender presentation is false)
- MTF (Short for Male-to-Female)
- M2F (Short for Male-to-Female)
- MTW (Short for "Man-to-Woman"; intended to emphasize the social rather than the physical aspects of the transition)
- M2W (Variant spelling of "MTW" above)
- Techno-winkte ("A male to female person who has decided that it's okay to continue using tools or electronic devices after transitioning to a female role; a butch m2f"—Gary Bowen's Dictionary of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Trannychick
- Trannygirl
- Transdame
- Transdamsel
- Transdyke
- Transgal
- Translady
- Transwoman
- Tryke (Contraction of Trans and Dyke)
- Winkte (Sioux Native American: a person, usually born male, 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. The Dakota Sioux ceremonially disowned and condemned winktes, but the Lakota Sioux considered winktes to have sacred powers. "Lame Deer [a Lakota Sioux man] admits that though the Lakotas thought people are what nature, or dreams, make them, still men weren't happy to see their sons running around with winktes. Still, he says that there are good men among the winktes and that they have special powers. . . . The Lakota often go to a winkte for a secret name, and such names carry great power, though they are often off-color. 'You don't let a stranger know [the secret name],' the winkte told them. 'He would kid you about it.' A winkte's power to name often wins the winkte great fame and usually a fine gift as well."—Paula Gunn Allen, "Lesbians in American Indian Culture," Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, 1989.)
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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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