male-to-female
[ meyl-tuh-fee-meyl ]
adjective
Sometimes Offensive. noting or relating to a person who was assigned male at birth but whose gender identity or gender expression is female.: See Usage note at the current entry.
noun
Sometimes Offensive. a person who was assigned male at birth but whose gender identity or gender expression is female. Abbreviation: MTF, MtF: See also trans woman.
Origin of male-to-female
1First recorded in 1965–70
usage note For male-to-female
Male-to-female was once the accepted terminology for women who were assigned male at birth. The term continues to be used in medical literature, and some transgender people do identify that way. Especially among younger transgender people, however, trans woman is now a more popular term for this demographic. For some people, the term male-to-female can be offensive for its implication that trans women were “originally” male, and have only now become female.
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How to use male-to-female in a sentence
“The older you get, the harder it is,” says one male-to-female transsexual, who did not know Mike Penner.
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