Trans woman

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A trans woman or transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Many trans women experience gender dysphoria, the distress that can arise from incongruence between their gender identity and their physical sex characteristics or the social expectations associated with their sex assigned at birth. Gender transition can reduce this incongruence and the associated distress. The term trans woman is sometimes used interchangeably with the earlier medical term male-to-female transsexual, though the latter refers specifically to those who have undergone medical transition, and is generally considered outdated. Someone assigned female at birth with a male gender identity is called a trans man. The opposite of transgender is cisgender. Trans women may have any sexual and romantic orientation, including being straight (attracted to men), lesbian (attracted to women), or bisexual. As part of social transition, trans women often adopt a more feminine gender expression with the goal of...

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