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trans-identified male

trans-identified male adjective: transgender female.

Adjective

trans-identified male (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, offensive) Transgender female.
  2. (uncommon) Transgender male.
    • Louise and her trans-identified male partner were considering having a baby together. Louise could not bear a child but her partner, who had not yet started transitioning, could […]2010, Tam Sanger, Trans People’s Partnerships: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 53
    • I began taking testosterone last June […] I attended Transitions, a university-sponsored trans support group, and this year served as the first trans-identified male cochair of my university's LGBTIQQA student group, Open Doors.2006, The Advocate, page 33

Noun

trans-identified male (plural trans-identified males)

  1. (derogatory, offensive) A trans woman.
    • […] they do not acknowledge that acting in female roles in the theatre could possibly have been one of the few socially borderline accepted ways for some trans-identified people to live their lives, they do not allow for the obvious that trans-identified males might have sought-out social roles in...2013, Eva Moser, Manufacturing Insanity - Vol. 1 - Creating Truth / When Darkness Falls, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 53–54
    • Mumsnet’s new moderation rules...ban transphobic terms such as “trans-identified male” (used offensively instead of “trans woman”)2018 November 19, Amelia Tait, “Mumsnet moderators are struggling to find the line between free speech and transphobia”, in Wired.co.uk
  2. (uncommon) A trans man.
    • Abstract: This thesis addresses the multiple ways that trans-identified males experience gender, masculinity, and identity. In this ethnographic project, seven trans-identified males living in the Triangle of North Carolina speak about their daily experiences and share their personal narratives to...2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities

Examples of trans-identified male in a sentence

  • I had been considering several different groups for my thesis project, and at first had resisted writing about the trans-identified male community.2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities
  • In this case, the tweets in question named Lisa Kreut, a trans-identified male.2018 November 28, D. Schlenk, Why transgenderism is a political ideology and not 'gender identity', in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc, Usenet...
  • As Ally commented if I were in a lesbian group now and there was a trans-identified male present, I would find it very, very difficult to stay a part of that group.2018, Heather Brunskell-Evans, Michele Moore, Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body, Cambridge Scholars Publishing...
  • Abstract: This thesis addresses the multiple ways that trans-identified males experience gender, masculinity, and identity.2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities

Forms of trans-identified male

Adjective
alternative initialismTIM
Noun
pluraltrans-identified males

Questions about trans-identified male

What does trans-identified male mean?
Trans-identified male means transgender female.
How do you use trans-identified male in a sentence?
I had been considering several different groups for my thesis project, and at first had resisted writing about the trans-identified male community.
What part of speech is trans-identified male?
Trans-identified male can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near trans-identified male in the dictionary

  1. Trans-Himalayan
  2. trans-hydrogenation
  3. trans-hydrogenations
  4. trans-identified female
  5. trans-identified females
  6. trans-identified male
  7. trans-identified males
  8. Trans-Jordan
  9. Trans-Jordania
  10. Trans-Jordanian
  11. Trans-Jordanians

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