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detrans

detrans adjective: relating to, or having undergone, detransition.

Adjective

detrans (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Relating to, or having undergone, detransition.
    • Research on supporting detrans could enable a variety of interventions designed to help detrans people.2020, Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp, “More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition”, in The Sociological Review, volume 68, number 4, page 812
    • They [detransitioners] find each other online: on Twitter, where they use the lizard emoji to signal their detrans status, […]2021, Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, unnumbered page

Origin of detrans

Clipping of detransition, by surface analysis, de- + trans.

Questions about detrans

What does detrans mean?
Detrans means relating to, or having undergone, detransition.
What part of speech is detrans?
Detrans is an adjective.

Words near detrans in the dictionary

  1. detrained
  2. detraining
  3. detrainment
  4. detrainments
  5. detrains
  6. detrans
  7. detransform
  8. detransformation
  9. detransformations
  10. detransformed
  11. detransition

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