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'''FtF''' ('''Female-to-Female''') is a term for [[transgender]] women who consider themselves transitioning from female to female, as they has always been female, just not in the way being female is traditionally defined as. They have always been female regardless of whatever genital, hormonal, or chromosomal arrangements they were born with, and whether they chooses to make changes to their body or not. It is an alterative to MtF as MtF implies that one was male, then transitioned to female. Male-to-female is a framing that’s easier to explain, but only because it's still rooted in the concept of binary sex distinctions and assuming gender based on sex, which a lot of trans people want to do away with entirely. |
'''FtF''' ('''Female-to-Female''') is a term for [[transgender]] women who consider themselves transitioning from female to female, as they has always been female, just not in the way being female is traditionally defined as. They have always been female regardless of whatever genital, hormonal, or chromosomal arrangements they were born with, and whether they chooses to make changes to their body or not. It is an alterative to MtF as MtF implies that one was male, then transitioned to female. Male-to-female is a framing that’s easier to explain, but only because it's still rooted in the concept of binary sex distinctions and assuming gender based on sex, which a lot of trans people want to do away with entirely. |
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Revision as of 23:00, 5 January 2021
FtF (Female-to-Female) is a term for transgender women who consider themselves transitioning from female to female, as they has always been female, just not in the way being female is traditionally defined as. They have always been female regardless of whatever genital, hormonal, or chromosomal arrangements they were born with, and whether they chooses to make changes to their body or not. It is an alterative to MtF as MtF implies that one was male, then transitioned to female. Male-to-female is a framing that’s easier to explain, but only because it's still rooted in the concept of binary sex distinctions and assuming gender based on sex, which a lot of trans people want to do away with entirely.