Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A transgender person who lives as a man.
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- noun A
female-to-male transgender ortranssexual person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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_______________________Collierville, TN: When one uses the terms "transman" or "transwoman," to what do they refer?
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Debra Rosenberg: When someone uses the term "transman" or "transwoman," they are referring to the new gender that the person has become.
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His openness about being what he calls a "transman" has a purpose, one reason he will speak at Tuesday night's meeting downtown of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG.
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But unlike Brandon Teena, a real life young adult transman, Mikael was just a little kid.
Blake Owen Middleton, Jr.: Transgender Children Jr. Blake Owen Middleton 2012
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But unlike Brandon Teena, a real life young adult transman, Mikael was just a little kid.
Blake Owen Middleton, Jr.: Transgender Children Jr. Blake Owen Middleton 2012
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I find transwoman/transman/transperson quite dehumanising.
trans woman 2009
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But unlike Brandon Teena, a real life young adult transman, Mikael was just a little kid.
Blake Owen Middleton, Jr.: Transgender Children Jr. Blake Owen Middleton 2012
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But unlike Brandon Teena, a real life young adult transman, Mikael was just a little kid.
Blake Owen Middleton, Jr.: Transgender Children Jr. Blake Owen Middleton 2012
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Coyote Grace's hunky, bearded Joe Stevens is a transman; and lissome, soft-butch Pureka is genderqueer.
Sylvia Sukop: Transamericana: From Folk Roots Up and Out 2010
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Yanub: ha, yes, I love the ‘gendering’ of illness or rather I hate it – it has accounted for too many deaths of male breast cancer patients and in a documentary, the transman is dying of ovarian cancer because….no one will allow a man in the office, they would literally rather die that allow a man to sit in the waiting room with other people with ovarian cancer.
Cat 'Aww!', woman as construct, crossdressing and Intersex/DSD issues Elizabeth McClung 2010
slumry commented on the word transman
A female to male transexual. I heard the term in an interview with Armistead Maupin about his new book. The term has been around for some time.
June 19, 2007