English

Alternative forms

• TSgirl (uncommon)

Noun

TS girl ‎(plural TS girls)

1. (LGBT, slang) A male-to-female transsexual person.
   • 2003, Erica Zander, TransActions, Periskop (2003), ISBN 9789189443013, page 203:

     ...and the sixteen year-old French TS girl I saw on TV probably twenty-five years ago, whose peasant parents treated her like just another one of their daughters.

   • 2007, Stuart Cooke, "One Night with Chinta", Meanjin, Volume 66 (No.1), March 2007:

     There was a pause. For a moment I thought she had left the computer. But then she started typing again. She wanted to know if I knew she was a TS girl. A TS girl? What on earth was a TS girl?

   • 2009, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life…Pink Heart: What It's Like Being the Pink Sheep of the Family, The Mystery Girls Publishing (2009), ISBN 1449533426, page 260:

     I've also known TS girls that lacked the adequate training or job skills needed to perform as a woman, or to attain the degree or status of transition they seek merely because they can't pass or find meaningful employment in their chosen gender.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:TS girl.
2. (medicine) Used other than as an idiom: see TS,‎ girl. (A girl who has a medical condition, such as Turner syndrome or Tourette syndrome, which is initialized "TS".)

Synonyms

• (male-to-female transsexual): see trans woman