trans woman

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A transgender or transsexual woman; a woman who was assigned male at birth, that is, a person who was assigned male at birth, but has a female or primarily female gender identity.

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“In “Femininity," Freud describes the limits of psychoanalytic knowledge of the female as follows: “psychoanalysis does not try⟳ to describe⟳ what a woman is — that would be a task it could scarcely perform⟳ — but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.” I was born “male" (whatever the contingencies of that term may be), and I lived my childhood largely (at least visibly) as a boy. But I grew up to be a trans woman.[…] At one point⟳, she spoke of "boys who played the flute in school bands," and I suddenly realized that to have⟳ been a boy who played the flute in school bands was a mark⟳ of distinction: that to have⟳ been that kind of boy included me in a very special and wonderful "sisterhood." I will never again give⟳ in to shame about being a flute-playing sissy. I'm proud of the sissy I was, and the trans woman that sissy became. (And I will try⟳, as well, not to be ashamed of the adolescent with hir collar turned up trying so hard to be tough. S/he was struggling hard to survive⟳, and s/he used whatever tools s/he could find⟳.)”

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