Meanings
- neologismnot comparablerareIdentifying as black despite having been born as a member of a different race (typically white).
[…] Was Rachel Dolezal transblack, or just a white woman in blackface?
2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, Oxford University Press, →ISBN2 more examples
“I do think a more complex label would be helpful, but we don’t really have that vocabulary. I feel like the idea of being trans-black would be much more accurate than ‘I’m white’. Because you know, I’m not white. […]”
2017 February 25, Decca Aitkenhead, “Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologise and grovel’”, in The Guardian[…] “It will happen someday just because people will declare themselves to be transblack.”
2018, Don W. Hill M.D., The Dnr Trilogy: Volume 3: Clinical Justice, Archway Publishing, →ISBN
Origin
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transblack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transblack
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