trans man

See also: transman and trans-man

English

Noun

trans man (plural trans men)

1. A transgender or transsexual man, i.e., a man who was assigned female at birth.
2. (derogatory, offensive, proscribed) A transgender or transsexual woman, i.e., a woman who was assigned male at birth.

Usage notes

• Regarding the spelling (as trans man vs transman), see the usage notes about trans woman.
• Sense 2 is only used by people who deny that transgender people are the gender they identify as, and is thus considered very offensive.

Alternative forms

• transman, trans-man (proscribed)

Synonyms

• trans guy; F2M, FTM, FtM
• hefemale (rare, derogatory)
• trans-identified female (derogatory, offensive, proscribed)

Hypernyms

• trans person

Coordinate terms

• trans woman, cis woman, cis man

Translations

a transgender or transsexual man

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跨性別男性／跨性别男性 (kuàxìngbié nánxìng)

• Czech: transmuž m
• Danish: transmand c, transfyr c
• Dutch: transman (nl) m
• Esperanto: transseksa viro, in-al-vira transseksulo, transviro
• Finnish: transmies (fi)
• French: transhomme (fr) m, homme trans (fr)
• Georgian: ტრანს-კაცი (ṭrans-ḳaci), ტრანსკაცი (ṭransḳaci), ტრანსსექსუალი კაცი (ṭransseksuali ḳaci), ტრანსგენდერი კაცი (ṭransgenderi ḳaci)
• German: Transmann (de) m
• Greek: τράνσμαν m (tránsman)
• Guaraní: homem trans m
• Icelandic: transmaður m
• Italian: uomo trans m
• Japanese: 体は女 心は男 (からだはおんな こころはおとこ, karada wa onna kokoro wa otoko) (literally "woman in body, man in heart"), トランス男性 (トランスだんせい, toransu dansei) (uncommon), FtM (エフトゥーエム, efu tū emu)
• Korean: 트랜스맨 (teuraenseumaen), 트랜스남성 (teuraenseunamseong)
• Maori: tāne irawhiti
• Mojave: hwame
• Nepali: पारलैङ्गिक पुरुष (ne) (pārlaiṅgik puruṣ)
• Newar: यितामिजं (yitāmijaṃ)
• Russian: транс-мужчи́на (ru) m (trans-mužčína)
• Spanish: hombre trans (es) m
• Tamil: திருநம்பி (tirunampi)
• Turkish: trans erkek

See also

• transmasculine
• FtM, female-to-male

Further reading

• trans man on Wikipedia.Wikipedia