trutrans en · ADJ
Etymology
From tru- (“true, genuine”) + trans.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most trutrans | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more trutrans | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
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