transcommunity

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A form of trans community — The community of transgender and transsexual people.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nountranscommunity (plural transcommunities)

plural transcommunities

  1. datedDated form of trans community.

    Who knows what to call transpeople these days? The dominant discourse in the transcommunity is at best a moving target. Transgender began its life as a name for those folks who identified neither as crossdressers nor as transexuals—primarily people who changed their gender but not their genitals.

    1997, “Foreword”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 15
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APA

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

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transcommunity,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transcommunity.

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