Trans woman

A trans woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women make-up a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, together with may transition; this process ordinarily includes hormone replacement therapy together with sometimes sex reassignment surgery, which can bring relief and settle feelings of gender dysphoria. Trans women may be heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, asexual, or identify with other terms such(a) as queer.

The term transgender woman is not always interchangeable with transsexual woman, although a terms are often used interchangeably. Transgender is an umbrella term that includes different category of gender variant people including transsexual people.

Trans women face significant discrimination in numerous areas of life, including in employment and access to housing, and face physical and sexual violence and hate crimes, including from partners; in the United States, discrimination is especially severe towards trans women who are members of a racial minority, who often face the intersection of transphobia and racism.

Sexual orientation

Trans women may identify as heterosexual or straight, bisexual, homosexual or lesbian, asexual, or none of the above. A survey of roughly 3000 American trans women showed 31% of them identifying as bisexual, 29% as "gay/lesbian/same-gender", 23% as heterosexual, 7% as asexual, as well as 7% identifying as "queer" and 2% as "other".

In a 2008 study, no statistically significant difference in libido was detected between trans women and cisgender women. As in males, female libido is thought to correlate with serum testosterone levels with some controversy but the 2008 discussing found no such correlation in trans women. Another study, published in 2014, found that 62.4% of trans women presents their sexual desire had decreased after sexual reassignment therapy.