Word.ws English Dictionary

transtrender

transtrender noun: a person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.

Noun

transtrender (plural transtrenders)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.
    • These young pre-ftMs and ftMs give each other that support, through friending, subscribing to and copiously supportive commenting on each trans trender’s video. The comments alone encourage and increase trans trending behavior, affirmative comments read on their videos and positive reinforcing...2010 November 25, dirtywhiteboi, “Are Trans Trenders The New Goth?”, in The Magazine Project, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2010
    • Many of the genderqueer kids in today’s liberal America are what Charlotte Wolf calls “transtrenders,” using gender as a form of social provocation or subcultural bonding.2015 March 23, Mark Gevisser, “Engendered”, in The Nation
    Antonyms:
    trutrans

Examples of transtrender in a sentence

  • Threads on the social media giant Reddit occasionally discuss or condemn "transtrenders" […]2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the...
  • These latter trans people are often accused of being "fakers." They are "transtrenders." Their trans identity is the result of social contagion, not Gender Dysphoria™.2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 79:
  • However, these conversations often reproduce hegemonic conceptions of masculinity, perpetuating white supremacy, heterosexism, and the idea of a "transtrender" fad.2014, National Women's Studies Association 2014 conference program, page 198
  • Whereas there is no transtrender subreddit, r/transmed and r/truscum both exist.2019, Jessica Rae Fisher, "Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century", thesis submitted to...

Antonyms of transtrender

Forms of transtrender

pluraltranstrenders

Origin of transtrender

Blend of transgender + trender or transgender + trend. Coined in November 2010 by dirtywhiteboi (a.k.a. "Dirt") of the anti-transgender blog "The Dirt from Dirt" in the article "Are Trans Trenders The New Goth?" for the website The Magazine Project. See Citations:transtrender for additional context.

Questions about transtrender

What does transtrender mean?
Transtrender means a person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.
How do you use transtrender in a sentence?
Threads on the social media giant Reddit occasionally discuss or condemn "transtrenders" […]
What part of speech is transtrender?
Transtrender is a noun.
What is the plural of transtrender?
The plural of transtrender is transtrenders.

Words near transtrender in the dictionary

  1. transtimes
  2. transtiming
  3. transtracheal
  4. transtracheally
  5. transtrapezial
  6. transtrender
  7. transtrenders
  8. transtricuspid
  9. transtrochanteric
  10. transtrophectoderm
  11. transtubal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transtrender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “transtrender.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/transtrender. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.