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Hello, I'm writing to tell you that a mistake has been made in this article. You should change it from "A trans woman is a woman" to "A trans woman is a person who identifies as a woman" because of the following reasons:

1. Saying this confuses the reader into thinking that a trans woman is actually a biological female. 2. This is leftist ideology newspeak.

Back to the first point, a woman or male is determined by genetical markers in the 23rd chromosome pair which are XX and XY for female and male respectively. This is common biological knowledge and a source can be looked upon anywhere, including every encyclopedia that exists. 78.60.112.253 ( talk) 21:44, 20 November 2023 (UTC) reply

 Not done: The current wording is the result of extensive discussion, during which a great many sources were evaluated. Please see the discussion archives linked in one of the yellow boxes near the top of this page. -- Maddy from Celeste ( WAVEDASH) 21:47, 20 November 2023 (UTC) reply

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In the Terminology section:

Change “(MtF. M2F)” to “(MTF or M2F)” to be consistent with the corresponding trans man article and improve grammar. I would recommend capitalizing the T in MTF as it seems to be more commonly used. Either way, it should be consistent between the two articles. 70.131.50.155 ( talk) 13:21, 7 January 2024 (UTC) reply

 Done

Akamaikai ( talk) 03:31, 10 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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In the last paragraph of 'Terminology' change "The term has historically been applies to people..." to "The term has historically been applied to people..." PolyCloud ( talk) 05:08, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

 Done. Thanks. Grayfell ( talk) 05:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply