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transmasc

transmasc adjective: transmasculine.

Adjective

transmasc (comparative more transmasc, superlative most transmasc)

  1. Transmasculine.
    • [...] the convention of masculinity through being an “alt” transmasc person (I was always explicitly non-binary) actually amounted to posturing, and ultimately allowed for more or less the same oppressions to be reinscribed, if only because I was uncritical about my position as a white [...]...2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905
    • [A] binder is a compression garment for your chest to flatten the chest. It's for other nonbinary or transmasc folks [...]2018, KL Reddy-Best, D Goodin, “QueerCrip fashion in the twenty-first century: Sky Cubacub and the QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement”, in Clothing Cultures

Noun

transmasc (plural transmascs)

  1. (informal) A trans man or other transmasculine person.
    • [They say things like] “I'm attracted to all genders, especially androgynous people,” or, “I am primarily interested in other transmascs.”2016, Sara Woods, Identifying as Transgender, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 32
    • And Literally No One treated me like shit when I identified as transmasc (I s2g, white transmascs seem to act victimized more than they materially are, and that's so much a part of the problem); [...]2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905

Forms of transmasc

Adjective
comparativemore transmasc
superlativemost transmasc
Noun
pluraltransmascs

Origin of transmasc

Clipping of transmasculine.

Questions about transmasc

What does transmasc mean?
Transmasc means transmasculine.
What part of speech is transmasc?
Transmasc can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near transmasc in the dictionary

  1. transmania
  2. transmantle
  3. transmarginal
  4. transmarginal inhibition
  5. transmarine
  6. transmasc
  7. transmascby
  8. transmascs
  9. transmasculine
  10. transmasculinities
  11. transmasculinity

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