Meanings
comparative more trutrans · superlative most trutrans
- 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 20222 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 2023Exi, 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
plural trutranses
- 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 2023Antonyms: transtrender
- 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 20231 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).
Origin
From tru- (“true, genuine”) + trans.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French truttans, trutrans
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Cite this entry
trutrans. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trutrans
“trutrans.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trutrans. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trutrans,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trutrans.
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