trutrans

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adjective

Genuinely or legitimately transgender (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).

Opposite
Scrabble 8

Meanings

adjectivetrutrans (comparative more trutrans, superlative most trutrans)

comparative more trutrans · superlative most trutrans

  1. transgender slang; typically sarcastic; transgender slang; typically sarcasticGenuinely or legitimately transgender (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).

    Sorry to burst your bubble but you're not trutrans unless you're playing Nintendo. This is worth gatekeeping.

    2022 May 25, @tttt_takes, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2022
    2 more examples

    Oh, dysphoria makes you trutrans? That's cool. I've been experiencing dysfiveia since I was a fetus. The doc said it makes me truest trans.

    2015 August 19, @GoodTransPosts, Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023

    Exi, a white non-binary person, was one of the participants who spoke most explicitly about intra-trans regulation. They told me that they ‘got fed up with reading a lot of the resources [about testosterone use] because they aimed at a specific kind of narrative; I got really trutrans truscum vibes from it’.

    2019 April, Rillark M. Bolton, “Reworking Testosterone as a Man’s Hormone: Non-binary People using Testosterone within a Binary Gender System”, in Somatechnics, volume 9, number 1, page 22
nountrutrans (plural trutranses)

plural trutranses

  1. transgender slang; typically sarcastic; transgender slang; typically sarcasticA genuine or legitimate transgender person (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).

    when i finally get a choker to complete my outfit im turning into a trutrans

    2017 September 25, @saturniidawn, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023

    Antonyms: transtrender

  2. transgender slangA transgender person who has gatekeepy (e.g. transmedicalist) ideas about who is legitimately trans.

    Very disturbed at the current attacks on @AutumnSandeen by both radfems and trutrans. Her surgeon seems to have been unethically indiscreet

    2011 September 10, @RozKaveney, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023
    1 more example

    Genderlife was set up by Calpernia Adams in (I think) the late 90s. It was a hive of trutranses and chasers pretending to be trans women, but it was all we had.

    2020 July 23, @CateSpice, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2020

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA genuine or legitimate transgender person (from the perspective, or mocking the perspective, of someone who has gatekeepy ideas of who is legitimately trans).

Opposite

Origin

From tru- (“true, genuine”) + trans.

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Translations

French truttans, trutrans
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Cite this entry
APA

trutrans. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trutrans

MLA

“trutrans.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trutrans. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trutrans,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trutrans.

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