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transness

transness noun: the condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.

Noun

transness (uncountable)

  1. The condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.
    • Green recognized that there are “little beehives of transness” in a few major US cities and abroad and F2M individuals who take upon themselves the role of educator and activist1996 Fall, R. Scott Gerdes, “Extraordinary Lives—A Personal History of the F2M Movement (Part Ⅱ): Where have we been? Where are we going?”, in Jean Marie Stine, editor, Transgender Tapestry, volume...
    • Clearly, these were folks who chose to view my transness as an “affliction” (despite the fact that I did not portray it that way myself).2013, Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, Seal Press, →ISBN

Synonyms of transness

Origin of transness

From trans + -ness.

Questions about transness

What does transness mean?
Transness means the condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.
What part of speech is transness?
Transness is a noun.

Words near transness in the dictionary

  1. transnatures
  2. transnaturing
  3. transneptunian
  4. transneptunian object
  5. transneptunian objects
  6. transness
  7. transneural
  8. transneuronal
  9. transneuronally
  10. Transnigerian
  11. Transnistria

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