{"id":4598,"date":"2021-04-27T07:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:13:50","slug":"how-do-we-call-transgender-women-in-asia-and-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/how-do-we-call-transgender-women-in-asia-and-around-the-world","title":{"rendered":"How do we call transgender women in Asia and around the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many terms that refer to transgender people. By <strong>using Google Trends data<\/strong> along with <strong>an infographic,<\/strong> we want to share with you some&nbsp;<strong>words that are used to refer to trans(gender) women<\/strong> in Asia and around the world, as well as the most popular terms on Google and what their trends are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The results may surprise you and we will later share our analysis with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Google Trends data?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Trends is a tool which allows us to see what the trending searches on Google are. It\u2019s also possible to compare&nbsp;what terms are searched more often on Google. To have more information about Google Trends, Simon Rogers, Data Journalist, and Data Editor at Google, did an article called <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/google-news-lab\/what-is-google-trends-data-and-what-does-it-mean-b48f07342ee8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>What is Google Trends data \u2014 and what does it mean<\/em>?<\/a>. We highly recommend that you read this article. It will help you understand why we have chosen the information on our infographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are we using Google Trends Data?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Google is the leading search engine in the world. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/search-engine-market-share#monthly-202001-202012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Search Engine Market Share Worldwide chart from Statcounter.com<\/a>, Google places first with more than 92% of the market in 2020. By using the Google Trends data, we are sure to have data which includes almost everybody in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Social trends, social responses and more<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its creation on September 27, 2012, Google Trends has been used many times for studies to show social trends, social responses to a specific event, track health issues, explain economic changes, and even predict such situations as unemployment rates or political elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the health domain, the<em> Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)<\/em> was able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/using-google-trends-to-track-social-responses-to-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">track social responses to COVID-19 using these datas<\/a>. The <em>National Library of Medicine <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32361922\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used Google Trends to assess worldwide interest in irritable bowel syndrome and commonly associated treatments<\/a> to help with their study. Google Trends was also used as a<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/article\/49\/10\/1557\/298019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> web-based tool for real-time surveillance of disease outbreaks<\/a> by <em>Oxford University Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the financial domain, <em>Nature Portfolio<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep01684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used Google Trends to qualify trading behavior in the financial markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there are thousands of other exemples in many other domains as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Google Trends for Our Infographic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For our infographic, we wanted to find accurate data about the words used to refer to trans(gender) women around the world. In our case, we use the questions down below to find our data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What term is popularly used in search engines when compared to other terms?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the usage trends of theses terms?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What term is the most popular one locally?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>[[SIGNUP]]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Infographic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s jump to <strong>the infographic we prepared for you<\/strong>. You will see that there are many words that can be used when&nbsp;referring to trans women. The usage of these words depends on a daily basic usage, a specific industry, a historical use, or a local use in some countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Design-v10.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2973\" height=\"19447\" src=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Design-v10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4929\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcription, our analysis and sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Asia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that Asia has plenty of words to refer to trans people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason for this is that each country has a long and rich history with trans people. <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/ladyboy\">Ladyboy<\/a> is the most searched term on Google because this term is used across Asia. With more than 1.3 Billion people, India takes second place with <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/are-the-hijra-and-transgender-woman-the-same\">Hijra<\/a> partly due to the country\u2019s population. Since there are more people who can search for the word, it became the second most popular term in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following terms are ranked accordingly after the previous two, <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/are-bakla-and-ladyboy-the-same\">Bakla<\/a> and Bayot in the Philippines, <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/waria-an-introduction-to-indonesian-ladyboys\">Waria<\/a> in Indonesia, <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/kathoey-aka-the-thai-ladyboy\">Kathoey<\/a> in Thailand and <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/what-is-a-newhalf\">Newhalf<\/a> in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of these terms started off as negative or continue to be&nbsp;offensive for local trans people. Due to a historical usage, they still are popular on Google. This is the case for <strong>bakla and bayot<\/strong>, which are also used to designate gay, effeminate, or bisexual people (being trans and gay are different things). The daily basis usage trend for them are decreasing to the benefit of the term <strong>transgender<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.26.25-1024x543.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.26.25-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.26.25-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.26.25-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.26.25-1536x815.png 1536w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.26.25-2048x1086.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=2020-01-01%202021-01-01&amp;q=Ladyboy,Hijra,Waria,Bakla,Kathoey\">Google Trend, 2020, Worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the West<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In Europe, North America, Australia and basically in the West, there is less diversity. We have there 2 main words used, <strong>transsexual<\/strong> and <strong>transgender<\/strong>. Or simply <strong>trans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201c<strong>trans<\/strong>\u201d prefix comes from Latin and means \u201c<strong>across<\/strong>\u201d or \u201c<strong>beyond<\/strong>\u201d. It can also be used without any suffixes. Transsexual \/ transgender therefore mean \u201c<em>which goes beyond (the binary of) sex \/ gender<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transsexual<\/strong> used to be the most used term around 2006-2007, but now <strong>transgender<\/strong> has become way more popular in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To explain that, it\u2019s important to know <a href=\"https:\/\/mytransgenderdate.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/whats-the-difference-between-gender-and-sex\">the difference between sex and gender<\/a>. The rise of Gender Theory in recent years pushed the notion of gender to the first rank, while making the notion of sex outdated.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.17.12-1024x544.png\" alt=\"Google Trend, 2004 - 2021, Worldwide\" class=\"wp-image-4820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.17.12-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.17.12-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.17.12-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.17.12-1536x815.png 1536w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.17.12-2048x1087.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=all&amp;q=transsexual,transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Trend, 2004 &#8211; 2021, Worldwid<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=all&amp;q=transsexual,transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">e<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Latin America<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Latin America is a special case of the West. The main term there is <strong>travesti<\/strong>. The term is searched more often on Google than\u201c<strong>transg\u00eanero<\/strong>\u201d (Spanish for transgender).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was initially a derogatory term but has since been reclaimed by <strong>Argentinian<\/strong> and <strong>Peruvian<\/strong> travesti activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of Latin America, <strong>travesti<\/strong> usually means \u201ccross-dresser\u201d (men who dress like women but aren\u2019t transgender).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to that, <strong>travesti<\/strong> is one of the most used terms on Google when referring to trans people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the Adult Industry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The adult industry has its own vocabulary too. Trans women are not exempt from being featured in adult films. To find <strong><strong>adult<\/strong> services or <strong>adult<\/strong> videos<\/strong> on the internet, people use the terms <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/what-is-a-shemale\">Shemale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/what-is-a-tranny-and-why-you-shouldnt-say-the-word\">Tranny<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People use both terms to search for the same content, but <strong>shemale<\/strong> is searched more often.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.19.06-1024x543.png\" alt=\"Google Trend, 2020, Worldwide\" class=\"wp-image-4821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.19.06-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.19.06-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.19.06-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.19.06-1536x814.png 1536w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.19.06-2048x1085.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=2020-01-01%202021-01-01&amp;q=shemale,tranny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Trend, 2020, Worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Globally<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With the data above, we see that tranny and shemale are in first and third person respectively as the most searched terms on Google. Due to their usage, we can understand why those two terms fall in those places. According to the Forbes article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/julieruvolo\/2011\/09\/07\/how-much-of-the-internet-is-actually-for-porn\/?sh=63d5abf45d16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>How Much of the Internet is Actually for P*rn<\/em><\/a>, 13% of web searches were for sensual content. That represents a huge part of the world wide traffic just for this category. To compare just 2 keywords on Google trend, the term \u201cp*rn\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.fr\/trends\/explore?q=business,porn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5,29 times more queried<\/a> on Google than \u201cbusiness\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean that shemale and tranny are the more popularly used terms on a daily basis in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logically, <strong>travesti<\/strong> also has&nbsp;a good position in this ranking. Mainly used in South America, it\u2019s also used to define <strong>cross-dressers<\/strong> in the West. Both usages of this word in the world add more search terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, <strong>transgender<\/strong> for the West and <strong>ladyboy<\/strong> for the East both dominate all the other terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if <strong>shemale<\/strong> is the most searched term on Google, the trends for it and <strong>transgender<\/strong> are slowly reversing. We can then assume that transgender has a chance to be the most searched term on Google in the future. For example P*rnHub, a major adult video streaming website, renamed their \u201cshemale\u201d category into \u201ctransgender\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.20.39-1024x544.png\" alt=\"Google Trend, 2004 - 2021, Worldwide\" class=\"wp-image-4823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.20.39-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.20.39-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.20.39-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.20.39-1536x816.png 1536w, https:\/\/myladyboydate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Capture-decran-2021-03-27-a-15.20.39-2048x1088.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Our source: <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=all&amp;q=shemale,transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Trend, 2004 &#8211; 2021, Worldwide<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do trans women think about this?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked the Asian trans women from our team what they thought about all these terms. We also asked them what they use on a daily basis. Here are their thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em><em>\u00ab I think \u201ctransgender\u201d is the more formal and more acceptable term. Ladyboy is a street word, the lowest of the lows, same feeling i get when filipinos call transgender women as bakla, bayot. \u00bb<\/em><\/em> <strong>Cate<\/strong> (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em><em>\u00ab I don\u2019t like bakla and bayot since it means gay and not trans woman. I also don\u2019t like Ladyboy. I always use transgender or transgender woman. Actually, I always use trans woman. Ladyboy was not so offensive in the past, but when i started to understand about SOGIE. It then became offensive for me \u00bb<\/em><\/em> <strong>Nichole<\/strong> (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em><em>\u00ab PH doesn\u2019t have a specific term or word for trans women so most people just call us bakla or bayot which is an umbrella word for biological men having sexual intercourse with same sex. Tranvesti is rarely used in PH or even in Asia. \u00bb<\/em><\/em> <strong>Ezzy<\/strong> (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have some responses from different people around the world after publishing articles about these terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab I like to use the word \u201cwoman\u201d when referring to a transgender woman. But that\u2019s just me.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>John<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;At least in South and East Asia, saying ladyboy is perfectly ok.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Rolando <\/strong>(Minsk, Belarus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;Just call us by the name, shouldn&#8217;t be that hard&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Ayla<\/strong> (Taubat\u00e9, Brazil)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;Well even \u201cladyboy\u201d I find it offensive&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Bella<\/strong> (Limasawa, Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;Maybe I&#8217;m just old fashioned but I call her by her name.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Alexander<\/strong> (SC, US)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;That term (ladyboy) is derogatory, trans women are women not something for you to belittle with the use of such terms.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Emily<\/strong> (Mount Isa, Australia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\">Compared to bakla and ladyboy, <em>\u00ab&nbsp;(Trans)gender is more respectful imho\u2026&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Erwin<\/strong> (Flardingue, Netherland)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;I like to say transwoman or transpinay, is that considered offensive? My girlfriend does not like the term ladyboy, so I no longer use it.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Steven<\/strong> (Rowland Heights, US)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blockquote\"><em>\u00ab&nbsp;I always believed in the thoughts of a third sex and with this I so really agree with the Hijra philosophy.&nbsp;\u00bb<\/em> <strong>Daniel<\/strong> (Hamilton, Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope that this infographic was both educational and interesting. You can help us improve it by giving us some other terms you would like to have included. Let us know by writing a comment below so we can contribute more knowledge to help build a better global community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many terms that refer to transgender people. By using Google Trends data along with an infographic, we want to share with you some&nbsp;words that are used to refer to trans(gender) women in Asia and around the world, as well as the most popular terms on Google and what their trends are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How do we call transgender women in Asia and around the world?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By using Google Trends data, we share with you some words that are used to refer to trans(gender) women in Asia and around the world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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