female-to-male
[ fee-meyl-tuh-meyl ]
adjective
Sometimes Offensive. noting or relating to a person who was assigned female at birth but whose gender identity or gender expression is male.: See Usage note at the current entry.
noun
Sometimes Offensive. a person who was assigned female at birth but whose gender identity or gender expression is male. Abbreviation: FTM, FtM: See also trans man.
Origin of female-to-male
1First recorded in 1970–75
usage note For female-to-male
Female-to-male was once the accepted terminology for men who were assigned female 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 man is now a more popular term for this demographic. For some people, the term female-to-male can be offensive for its implication that trans men were “originally” female, and have only now become male.
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How to use female-to-male in a sentence
In the movie, Angel talks to female-to-male transsexuals, like himself, about their sex-change experiences.
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