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gender euphoria en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ juˈfɔɹi.ə/ (General-American)
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Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The profound feeling of joy and comfort that some transgender people and others feel when perceived as the gender they identify with.
    • Even though he wasn't out as trans to anyone yet, he felt a rush of gender euphoria when the waiter called him "sir."
    • I discovered that, although elusive and fleeting, gender euphoria did exist, and it was bursting out everywhere from inside me. In that bedroom, during that encounter, I didn’t want to be anyone else but me, for the first time in my life. 2024, Alana S. Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, Bad Habit, 4th Estate, page 106:

Antonyms

gender dysphoria

Relateds

euphoria boner