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trutrans en · ADJ

Etymology

From tru- (“true, genuine”) + trans.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:transgender slang; typically sarcastic; transgender slang; typically sarcastic) Genuinely or legitimately transgender (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).
    • Sorry to burst your bubble but you're not trutrans unless you're playing Nintendo. This is worth gatekeeping. 2022 May 25, @tttt_takes, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2022:
    • Oh, dysphoria makes you trutrans? That's cool. I've been experiencing dysfiveia since I was a fetus. The doc said it makes me truest trans. 2015 August 19, @GoodTransPosts, Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023:
    • Exi, a white non-binary person, was one of the participants who spoke most explicitly about intra-trans regulation. They told me that they ‘got fed up with reading a lot of the resources [about testosterone use] because they aimed at a specific kind of narrative; I got really trutrans truscum vibes from it’. 2019 April, Rillark M. Bolton, “Reworking Testosterone as a Man’s Hormone: Non-binary People using Testosterone within a Binary Gender System”, in Somatechnics, volume 9, number 1, page 22:

Forms

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most trutrans Degree=Sup lexicographic
more trutrans Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Translations (1)

fr truttans (Translations)

trutrans en · NOUN

Etymology

From tru- (“true, genuine”) + trans.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:transgender slang; typically sarcastic; transgender slang; typically sarcastic) A genuine or legitimate transgender person (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).
    • when i finally get a choker to complete my outfit im turning into a trutrans 2017 September 25, @saturniidawn, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
  2. (qualifier:transgender slang) A transgender person who has gatekeepy (e.g. transmedicalist) ideas about who is legitimately trans.
    • Genderlife was set up by Calpernia Adams in (I think) the late 90s. It was a hive of trutranses and chasers pretending to be trans women, but it was all we had. 2020 July 23, @CateSpice, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2020:
    • Very disturbed at the current attacks on @AutumnSandeen by both radfems and trutrans. Her surgeon seems to have been unethically indiscreet 2011 September 10, @RozKaveney, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:

Forms

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trutranses Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

transtrender

Deriveds

trumed

Relateds

transmed · transmedicalism · truscum

Translations (1)

fr trutrans (Translations)