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Ooof. Yeah, i can see why you don't talk to her much. Still, even truscum should never be misgendered, it's a matter of principle that we should always stick to. And that absolutely includes familial terms. I can live with people using gender neutral terms like "child" for me, but it means the world to me when my mom calls me her daughter instead, and it also means the world to me that my brother, who's always been unwavering in his allyship and is just all around a cool dude, has consistently and without fail referred to me as his sister instead of just his sibling ever since i've come out (that should, btw, be the standard and it's not what makes him an ally, but always sticking up for me, correcting people who misgender me and taking a burden off my shoulder by explaining the basics of being trans to my mom after i came out do). And being called a son by my parents would sting. I would at the very least stick to using a neutral term like parent here. Calling a trans woman your dad or father is, unless she is very explicitly ok with this, universally a grave transphobic insult. That's just how it is. i'm not gonna mince words here. It's not ok unless it is her clearly expressed wish you use these terms. I get it when you say she didn't act like a mother towards you. Even if we leave out gendered roles in parenting, that requires more than being a woman who's had a part in bringing you into this world, but dang. Calling her your dad is just wrong on every level.
With that out of the way, here's some general thoughts about the subject (note that for the sake of simplicity, i'm using male gendered terms in the first paragraph that i wouldn't use for your parent, but that are fine here because my examples in that section are exclusively cis men).
I very often see people who've gone no contact with their parents use terms like Erzeuger (the term for "conceiver" in my first language, German) for their father, which is a very clear way of saying "my relationship to that asshole extends to the regrettable fact that he came inside my mom 9 months before my birth." So there's a very rough connotation of a highly strained or completely broken relationship there, one that emphasizes that person failed to provide any of all the good things our society associates with parenthood. When we reduce human interaction to matters of biology, that's never flattering. Some people have done things to their kids that make this fully understandable, i know that people who do the Erzeuger thing have very good reason to, but ... like i said, these are cis men i'm talking about. Keep in mind that for trans people who are routinely excluded on the grounds of a biologist essentialism, being reduced to our gametes is incredibly fucking hurtful, openly denies core aspects of our humanity and is a key strategy in denying trans identies. Focussing on "basic biology" is a weapon transphobes use against us. This makes talking about us in "purely biological" terms not a purely biological thing, but one that is inextricably linked to anti-trans ideology. So, that's the biological angle, and as you can see, emphasizing that aspect is at the very least problematic here.
Then there's the rainbow family angle, where people have more than one woman who's a parent to them. I see first names used a lot in such contexts, and i think using just the chosen name to refer to your parent is fine. I also see a lot of synonyms for mother, like people calling one of their mothers mom and the other mommy or nana or whatever. I also see the term co-mother being used, but that usually happens not between the co-mother and the child, but in a legal context, like "advocating for the rights of co-mothers in lesbian relationships", and the co-mother is usually not the person who gave birth to the child. But it's another term that exists. Lastly, i also know trans women whose children do just call them "my other mom", and that is a big deal to these women especially considering the fact that almost all trans moms i know have gone through incredibly messy divorces after they came out to their now ex wifes and have struggled hard to maintain a good relationship with their child(ren) in spite of the ex taking a headfirst dive into transphobia out of the sheer spite resulting from the mortal inujury to their fragile heterosexuality that resulted from their partner coming out as a woman. A lot of people can't be normal about this, can't just accept that they were simply as mistaken about a person's gender as most of us have been ourselves for large parts of our life. I don't know how the breakup between your parents played out, i want to make it clear i'm not making any assumptions here. But i've seen a lot of families break apart in awful ways after a trans person coming out and that plays into how i view these matters.
Now, every trans biography is different. That's important to stress here. I don't know you, i don't know your parents, i'm not passing any judgement beyond the basics i wrote in the first paragraph. Jut laying out every possible angle here in full to give you and the community the most complete take on the issue i can offer.