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trans womyn en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans woman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

Meanings

1. (rare) Feminist spelling of trans woman and trans women.
   • The internal debate led to some awkward and confusing statements about who counts as womyn, such as, “Trans womyn who identify as womyn-born-womyn are welcome at Michfest.” 2017, Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, NYU Press, page 91, quoting a MichFest statement
   • I am a tweener dyke and more butch than femme. I know other trans womyn who are solidly butch, and others who are totally femme, and, of course, the equivalents among straight and bi womyn. 2011, Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (John Hunt Publishing), quoting Marja Erwin
   • … the officer responsible for the brutal beating of trans womyn Duanna Johnson who was shot and killed in the process of suing the Memphis Police Department has been sent caskets and death threats, corporate pride events have been stormed, … 2016 (originally published 2011), "An Alleyway Tranarchist", Lubing Up The Social War, in Queer Ultraviolence: Bashback! Anthology (Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli, eds.)

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