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trancestor

trancestor noun: a forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.

Noun

trancestor (plural trancestors)

  1. (rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.
    • page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a...2011, Susannah Cornwall, Controversies in Queer Theology, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, →ISBN
    • Fortunately, because I did get a kick out of him, he liked me and would come over and share stories about working with Jackie Curtis, who is a personal hero of mine, and show me pictures of my trancestors in their youthful glory, when their courage, outrageousness, and heavy drug usage paved the...2014, Amy Scholder, Icon, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN

Forms of trancestor

pluraltrancestors

Origin of trancestor

Blend of trans + ancestor.

Questions about trancestor

What does trancestor mean?
Trancestor means a forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.
What part of speech is trancestor?
Trancestor is a noun.
What is the plural of trancestor?
The plural of trancestor is trancestors.

Words near trancestor in the dictionary

  1. trancers
  2. trances
  3. trances out
  4. trancester
  5. trancesters
  6. trancestor
  7. trancestors
  8. trancework
  9. trancey
  10. tranch
  11. tranche

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