Ben son , male gender so , not in the biological sense of the word , you shouldn ' t say about an mtf transgender who isn ' t taking estrogen , you should use the word in that case , though when it comes to transgenders , I ' d suggest to steer clear of Hebrew , as it gets very linguistically confusing very quickly , male child . Yeled male child , son . The order of the meanings matters . Yeled is more commonly used to mean child , and Ben is more commonly used to mean son . Both can work as both , unless we ' re talking about an adult , in which case only ben fits unless you ' re trying to imply he ' s acting like a child . <| sep |> Yeah , I think I ' ve got most of what I wanted going now . And while it seems to work well , the interface sucks .