John 50

noun

A trans woman who has long repressed her feelings of gender dysphoria.

Meanings

nounJohn 50 (plural John 50s)

plural John 50s · alternative John, 50 · alternative rare John50 · alternative rare john50

  1. derogatory4chan /lgbt/ slangA trans woman who has long repressed her feelings of gender dysphoria.

    nick fuentes is a john50 lateshit represser who seeks out nazism to cope with his gigaogremoder repression

    2024 June 13, @OatMilkZombie, X (post)
    2 more examples

    Anon will be a extremely bitter john 50 and his family will all have an extreme hate for him for trooning out. Also i bet this sends his sister down a terf pipeline and I honestly don’t blame them

    2023 June 6, u/avian_variety, r/4tran (Reddit post)

    It honestly feels like I was born to be a #john50 the way that my life has only gotten worse on hrt and I was so successful at repressing for so long but alas I was born in present era 💔💔

    2024 March 19, @Novice96, X (post)
verbJohn 50 (third-person singular simple present John 50s, present participle John 50ing, simple past and past participle John 50ed)

present singular third person John 50s · participle present John 50ing · participle past John 50ed · past John 50ed · alternative John, 50 · alternative rare John50 · alternative rare john50

  1. derogatoryintransitive4chan /lgbt/ slangTo transition as a John 50.

Origin

From John + translingual 50, in reference to a 2001 study in the journal Gender and Psychoanalysis, where a 50-year-old male identified as John is described as struggling with gender dysphoria after years of repression.

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APA

John 50. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/John%2050

MLA

“John 50.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/John%2050. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “John 50,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/John%2050.

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