female-to-maleadj.n.

1917 L. Cobbett Causes of Tuberculosis vii. 87 Stewart attributed the high female to male ratio in Scotland to exhaustion entailed by agricultural work and the phthisigenetic nature of the occupations followed by many of the women.

1947 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 5 Feb. 13/1 The female-to-male ratio in such cities as Berlin estimated at 6-1.

1998 R. T. Zaplin Female Offenders i. 10 It..is worth noting that..the female-to-male percentage of arrests for illegal drug use has not been rising.

2005 Mirror (Sc. ed.) (Nexis) 1 Mar. 13 New figures show Glasgow has 30,000 more women than men, which is the widest female-to-male ratio in the UK.

1965 Jrnl. Pediatrics 66 529/2 In..many..inbred strains [of mice] a homotransplantation antigen on the Y chromosome of the male usually renders male skin unacceptable to the female, though male-to-male, female-to-female, and female-to-male grafts are accepted.

1972 C. C. Sweeley et al. in J. B. Stanbury et al. Metabolic Basis Inherited Dis. (ed. 3) xxxi. 680/1 The X-linked mode of inheritance is supported by the absence of male-to-male transmission, the absence of parental consanguinity, the occurrence of female-to-male transmission, and the measurable linkage between the loci for Fabry's disease and the Xg^a blood group antigen.

1980 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77 2850/1 The male-to-male and female-to-male transmission of the variant phenotype within this pedigree is consistent with autosomal linkage for the structural gene.

1993 G. Pardi & A. E. Semprini in A. R. Genazzani et al. Frontiers in Gynecologic & Obstetr. Investig. xiv. 130 The available data so far suggest that male-to-female sexual HIV transmission is more efficient than the female-to-male route.

2011 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 Dec. a11 Washington will..support more than 4.7 million voluntary medical male circumcisions, a procedure that dramatically reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission.

1971 Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) 7 Oct. 25/4 Five of the group..underwent surgery from male to female while the other was a ‘follow-up’ surgery as part of a female to male procedure.

1989 N.Y. Mag. 2 Jan. 103/4 White female-to-male transsexual, 35... Old-fashioned values... Loves kids, pets. Desires lady, 25-35.

1996 L. Feinberg Transgender Warriors 92 When a masculine female-to-male cross-dresser is married to a bisexual drag queen, is this a heterosexual relationship?

2004 NFT Programme Booklet June 29/1 This documentary odyssey follows a female-to-male (FTM) transsexual..on a five-year journey from ‘Sue’ to ‘Theo’.

1983 New Scientist 25 Mar. 768/1 The male-to-female patients were more satisfied than the female-to-males with the surgery from a cosmetic point of view.

1992 M. Garber Vested Interests (1997) iv. 103 Fears about gross physical scarring..and an incapacity for erection and ejaculation make sexual reassignment surgery for female-to-males less common.

2011 Canberra Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. I was at a doctor's surgery recently having an injection and the nurse asked me if I was ‘a female to male’ (ie, a transsexual).