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trans-friendly

trans-friendly adjective: welcoming of transgender people.

Adjective

trans-friendly (comparative more trans-friendly, superlative most trans-friendly)

  1. Welcoming of transgender people.
    • The trans community is also ravaged by aids; we need aids education and services that are offered in trans-friendly space.1996, Leslie Feinberg, Transgender warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, page 125
    • A true trans-friendly business should have a unisex restroom in addition to the traditional men's and women's rooms meant for those stuffy people who define themselves by their genitalia.2002, Matt Kailey, Tranifesto: selected columns and other ramblings from a transgendered mind, page 38

Examples of trans-friendly in a sentence

  • America isn't exactly as trans-friendly as it is gay-friendly.2009, James E. Beasley School of Law of Temple University, Symposium: intersections of transgender lives and the law, page 453:
  • There are also social scenes that are traditionally more trans-friendly.2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, page 293:

Forms of trans-friendly

comparativemore trans-friendly
superlativemost trans-friendly
alternative formtransfriendly

Questions about trans-friendly

What does trans-friendly mean?
Trans-friendly means welcoming of transgender people.
How do you use trans-friendly in a sentence?
America isn't exactly as trans-friendly as it is gay-friendly.
What part of speech is trans-friendly?
Trans-friendly is an adjective.

Words near trans-friendly in the dictionary

  1. trans-erasure
  2. trans-exclusionary
  3. trans-fat
  4. trans-fats
  5. trans-female
  6. trans-friendly
  7. trans-gender
  8. trans-genders
  9. trans-Golgi network
  10. trans-Golgi networks
  11. Trans-Himalayan

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