A trans woman (sometimes trans-woman or transwoman) is a male-
to-female (MTF) transgender person with a female gender
identity. The label of transgender woman is not interchangeable
with that of transsexual woman, although the two are often
combined or mistaken for the same thing. A transsexual woman is
someone who was assigned male at birth but whose gender identity
is that of a woman; transsexual women may undergo physical
changes to align their body with their gender identity (known as
transition). Transgender is an umbrella term that includes
different types of gender variant people (including transsexual
people) so transgender women could, for example, refer to either
a woman who was assigned male at birth, identifies as a woman,
but does not wish to undergo physical changes, or a transsexual
woman. "Assigned sex" refers to the assigning or naming of the
sex of a baby, usually based upon the appearance of external
genitalia. "Gender identity" refers to a person's private sense
of, and subjective experien