Society and Culture
- Tranny (slang) - generally pejorative term for:
- Transvestite, a person who wears clothing traditionally associated with the opposite sex
- Transgender, a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles
- Transsexual, an individual who identifies with a gender inconsistent or not culturally associated with his or her assigned sex
- Trans woman, a male-to-female transsexual or transgender person
- Trans man, a female-to-male transsexual or transgender person
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