Meanings
- not comparableBeing, or pertaining to being, both a trans man and attracted to men (gay).
Justin Tanis, a transgay male, reads the story of Jesus turning the Canaanite woman away.
2000, Robert Goss, Mona West, Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible, →ISBN, page 62 more examples
Simon, who is 64 and the only self-identified transgay man of the interviewees, explained that growing up, "I hated girly clothes all along. I never wanted to show my body or wear a dress. I never dated at all ... it does make you feel different. When I came out as a lesbian, I was already divorced ... my sexual sensation had already increased ... what I discovered is that I was gay."
2008, Brian Reed Singer, "On the gender continuum: the stories of transmen", thesis submitted to San Jose State University, pages 73-74Many issues like transphobia, homosexual transsexuality (of both translesbians and transgay individuals), the transfeminist project, […]
2009, Izzo Mirella, AzioneTrans Manifesto, →ISBN, page 7
Origin
Translations
French transgay
- transgaybeing a trans man and gay
Polish transhomoseksualny
- transhomoseksualnybeing a trans man and gay
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