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trutrans

trutrans adjective: genuinely or legitimately transgender (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).

Adjective

trutrans (comparative more trutrans, superlative most trutrans)

  1. (transgender slang, typically sarcastic) Genuinely or legitimately transgender (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).
    • Oh, dysphoria makes you trutrans? That's cool. I've been experiencing dysfiveia since I was a fetus. The doc said it makes me truest trans.2015 August 19, @GoodTransPosts, Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023
    • Exi, a white non-binary person, was one of the participants who spoke most explicitly about intra-trans regulation. They told me that they ‘got fed up with reading a lot of the resources [about testosterone use] because they aimed at a specific kind of narrative; I got really trutrans truscum vibes...2019 April, Rillark M. Bolton, “Reworking Testosterone as a Man’s Hormone: Non-binary People using Testosterone within a Binary Gender System”, in Somatechnics, volume 9, number 1, page 22

Noun

trutrans (plural trutranses)

  1. (transgender slang, typically sarcastic) A genuine or legitimate transgender person (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).
    • when i finally get a choker to complete my outfit im turning into a trutrans2017 September 25, @saturniidawn, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023
    Antonyms:
    transtrender
  2. (transgender slang) A transgender person who has gatekeepy (e.g. transmedicalist) ideas about who is legitimately trans.
    • Very disturbed at the current attacks on @AutumnSandeen by both radfems and trutrans. Her surgeon seems to have been unethically indiscreet2011 September 10, @RozKaveney, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023
    • Genderlife was set up by Calpernia Adams in (I think) the late 90s.
      It was a hive of trutranses and chasers pretending to be trans women, but it was all we had.2020 July 23, @CateSpice, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2020

Examples of trutrans in a sentence

  • They told me that they ‘got fed up with reading a lot of the resources [about testosterone use] because they aimed at a specific kind of narrative; I got really trutrans truscum vibes from it’.2019 April, Rillark M. Bolton, “Reworking Testosterone as a Man’s Hormone: Non-binary People using Testosterone within a Binary Gender...
  • Sorry to burst your bubble but you're not trutrans unless you're playing Nintendo.2022 May 25, @tttt_takes, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2022:

Antonyms of trutrans

Forms of trutrans

Adjective
comparativemore trutrans
superlativemost trutrans
Noun
pluraltrutranses

Origin of trutrans

From tru- (“true, genuine”) + trans.

Words formed from trutrans

Questions about trutrans

What does trutrans mean?
Trutrans means genuinely or legitimately transgender (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).
How do you use trutrans in a sentence?
They told me that they ‘got fed up with reading a lot of the resources [about testosterone use] because they aimed at a specific kind of narrative; I got really trutrans truscum vibes from it’.
What part of speech is trutrans?
Trutrans can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near trutrans in the dictionary

  1. truti
  2. trutination
  3. trutinations
  4. trutis
  5. Trutnov
  6. trutrans
  7. trutranses
  8. trutruca
  9. trutrucas
  10. trutruka
  11. trutrukas

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