transfeminated

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trans- (“on the other side of”) + Latin femina (“woman”) + English -ed.

transfeminated (not comparable)

(obsolete, rare) Changed from a woman into a man.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, pages 147–148:
  As for the mutation of ſexes, or tranſition into one another, we cannot deny it in Hares, it being obſervable in man: for hereof beſide Empedocles or Tireſias, there are not a few examples; and though very few, or rather none which have emaſculated or turned [into] women, yet very many who from an eſteem or reallity of being women have infallibly proved men: […] But ſurely it much impeacheth this iterated tranſexion of Hares [from female to male back to female, ad infinitum], if that be true which Cardan and other Phyſitians affirm, that Tranſmutation of ſex is only ſo in opinion, and that theſe transfeminated perſons were really men at firſt, although ſucceeding yeares produced the manifeſto or evidence of their virilities; which although intended and formed, was not at firſt excluded, and that the examples hereof have undergone no reall or new tranſexion, but were Androgynally borne, and under ſome kind of Hermaphrodites: […]
(obsolete, rare) Changed from a man into a woman.^[1]

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933. "transfeminate"
Thomas Blount, Glossographia, or, A dictionary (1656), "Transfeminate": "to turn from woman to man, or from one sex to another."
Dr. Kit Heyam (2022 September 13) Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, Seal Press, →ISBN:
Browne […] even coined the adjective 'transfeminated' to refer to a body that has transformed from what we think of as 'female' to what we think of as 'male'.ⁱ So the prefix 'trans-' was clearly relevant to thinking about 'gender malleability' long before Hirschfeld leveraged it to refer to the patients he saw at his Institute for Sexual Science. […] ⁱ This looks odd to modern eyes, as we're used to using words like 'transfeminine' to describe people who have transitioned to living as female or feminine – but Browne used 'transfeminated' to mean the opposite.
Gamble, Joseph (2019) “Toward a Trans Philology”, in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, volume 19, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 26–44