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My Transgender Date is the leading dating platform for trans women and trans oriented men, available in 12 languages with members in 190 countries.

Cyril and Maki

Story

My Transgender Date was founded in 2013 by French entrepreneur Cyril Mazur and Filipino beauty queen Maki Gingoyon.

The platform stands out for the high standards that the 24/7 moderation team maintains. It also aims to break stereotypes and normalize transgender relationships.

As of 2024 there are 30+ team members working at My Transgender Date, and most of them are trans women.

Timeline

2013
Launched My Ladyboy Date, with initial focus on Asia.
2014
Launched My Transsexual Date, a second brand for a global audience.
2015
Became available in 9 languages, and already counted members in 190 countries.
2020
1 million profiles created and 100 million messages exchanged! 🎉
2021
Renamed My Transsexual Date into My Transgender Date, for more inclusivity.
2023
Launched the mobile app (iOS and Android) 📱
2024
More exciting developments to come! 🚀

Terminology

Trans woman (also called transgender woman, transsexual woman, male-to-female transsexual)

A woman who was assigned male at birth. In other terms, a trans woman was born in a man's body but identifies as a woman.

Trans oriented man (also called trans attracted)

A man who is romantically attracted to trans women.

Ladyboy

A colloquial term employed mainly in Thailand, the Philippines and other South East Asian countries to refer to trans women.

User reviews

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Our obsession for providing the highest quality of service has not gone unnoticed by our members. They rated us 4.6 on Trustpilot.

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Press releases

My Transgender Date releases mobile app

My Transgender Date announces the global launch of its mobile app, available now for iOS and Android devices. The app offers the full dating experience found on mytransgenderdate.com, in a convenient...

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My Transgender Date becomes available in Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷

My Transgender Date just launched its Brazilian Portuguese version. This comes in addition to the European Portuguese version which has been existing since 2015. Considering we now have ten times mor...

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New selfie-based “Verified” badge

My Transgender Date is excited to announce the launch of its new selfie-based verification system, which replaces the old Facebook-based system. Users simply need to take a selfie using their smartph...

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Removal of the “Facebook Login” functionality

Because of Facebook’s increasing problems and unrealibility, we decided to remove the “Facebook Login” (aka ”Log in with Facebook”) functionality from our website. All members who use “Facebook Login...

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My Ladyboy Date is merged into My Transgender Date

In order to focus our efforts and always deliver the best to our members, we decided to “retire” My Ladyboy Date and merge it into My Transgender Date. Starting March 2022, the myladyboydate.com webs...

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My Transsexual Date is now called My Transgender Date

In order to server our members better, we decided to change our name to **My Transgender Date** and our URL to **mytransgenderdate.com.** In 2021, it has become clear that an increasing majority of t...

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We have a new logo (2020)

My Ladyboy Date / My Transsexual Date have a new logo in 2020! Our new logo was designed by French designer Aurélien Sesmat. He was naturally inspired by the previous logo and kept the heart (obvious...

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Normal operations during the COVID-19 crisis

As many people are stranded at home, we know they will turn to the Internet to maintain the social bond, and online dating plays an important role in this. That’s why we want to reassure our members t...

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Our website is now available in Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

My Ladyboy Date / My Transsexual Date was already available in Simplified Chinese (localized for Mainland China) since 2015. As of today, it is now also available in Traditional Chinese (localized for...

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