trutrans

From tru- (“true, genuine”) +‎ trans.

trutrans (comparative more trutrans, superlative most trutrans)

1. (transgender slang, sometimes sarcastic) Genuinely or legitimately transgender.
   • 2015 August 19, @GoodTransPosts, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2023-04-15:

     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.

   • 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:

     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 from it’.

   • 2022 May 25, @tttt_takes, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-11-20:

     Sorry to burst your bubble but you're not trutrans unless you're playing Nintendo. This is worth gatekeeping.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trutrans.

trutrans (plural trutranses)

1. (transgender slang, sometimes sarcastic) A genuine or legitimate transgender person.

   Antonym: transtrender (derogatory)

   • 2011 September 10, @RozKaveney, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

     Very disturbed at the current attacks on @AutumnSandeen by both radfems and trutrans. Her surgeon seems to have been unethically indiscreet

   • 2017 September 25, @saturniidawn, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

     when i finally get a choker to complete my outfit im turning into a trutrans

   • 2020 July 23, @CateSpice, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2020-07-24:

     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.

• truscum

• transmed
• transmedicalism