transmale
n.— «It’s only been about four years now that I’ve really started identifying as a transmale…Transmale is another term for female to male, so transmale would be wanting to transition into a male identity.» —“Transgender MSU student talks on ‘Larry King Live’” by Laura Misjak in Michigan State University State News (East Lansing, Mich.) Feb. 16, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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