Transwomanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

trans woman (plural trans women)

1. 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.
   • 1999, Jody Norton, “The Boy Who Grew Up to Be a Woman”, in Matthew Rottnek, editor, Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood‎, New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 263, 268:

     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.)

使用する際の注意点

• Trans woman is often spelled with a space, with trans as an adjective modifying the noun woman, similar to Asian woman, tall woman, fat woman, etc. The unspaced spelling transwoman is sometimes used interchangeably, including by a few transgender people. However, it is often associated with views (notably gender-critical feminism) that hold that transgender women are not women, and thus require a separate word from woman to describe them; for this reason, many transgender people find transwoman offensive.

別の表記

• transwoman, trans-woman (proscribed)
• trans womyn (transfeminist spelling, especially of the plural)

同意語

• transgirl, trans girl
• TG girl (slang), t-girl (derogatory, slang), TS girl (slang), M2F, MTF, MtF
• newhalf (slang, rare)
• zenana (South Asia)
• shemale (derogatory, offensive, proscribed, chiefly in pornography)
• trans-identified male (derogatory, offensive, proscribed)

上位語

• transfem
• trans person
• woman

下位語

• trans lesbian

等位語

• trans man, cis man, cis woman

参考

• MtF
• transfeminine

参照

Further reading

• “trans woman”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

発音

名詞

transwoman (plural transwomen)

1. (often derogatory, offensive) Alternative spelling of trans woman.

   Coordinate term: transman

   • 2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity:

     She had been attracted to Sharon from the time they met, but had not felt comfortable with the idea of dating a transwoman.

   • 2010, Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality:

     A transwoman is thus required to fashion her own body as a blank in order to gain a document that is not itself a blank; the document will not speak her sex until her body fails to.

   • 2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:

     Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.

   • 2012, Nicholas M. Teich, Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue:

     Conversely, if you are a lesbian-identified transwoman who was legally married to a woman prior to transition, some people may claim your union is now illegal because it is presently a same-sex marriage.

   • 2014 February 13, Martha Mendoza, quoting Brielle Harrison, “Facebook offers new gender options for users”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 9 June 2023‎:

     “There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female. On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.
     “All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it’s kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,” she said. “This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is.”

使用する際の注意点

• See usage notes on trans woman.

Further reading

• “transwoman”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “transwoman”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “transwoman, trans woman”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.