transbutch

plural transbutches

1. An AFAB person whose gender identity or gender expression is intermediate between butch and transmasculine.

   I know so many transbutches who remain in the dark and I wanted to let them know it's ok to be themselves.

   2020, J. J. Petit, “Shifting the Borders: My Transbutch Herstory”, in The Ignatian, volume 32, page 70

   2 more examples

   In this video, Lee and Hurwitz construct a finely calibrated landscape of a transmasculinity made up of heterosexual FTMs, queer-identified FTMs, gay male FTMs, transfags, and transbutches, although none of these terms is mutually exclusive.

   2003, Arturo J. Aldama, Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State, page 290

   Transbutches embody a third space (with others) between the uncritical celebration of “womanhood” and its rejection entirely.

   2014, Jen Manion, "Transbutch", Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, May 2014

   Synonyms: MtB