trans womyn

noun

Etymology

From trans woman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

Definitions

  1. Feminist spelling of trans woman and trans women.

    • I am a tweener dyke and more butch than femme. I know other trans womyn who are solidly butch, and others who are totally femme, and, of course, the equivalents among straight and bi womyn.
    • The internal debate led to some awkward and confusing statements about who counts as womyn, such as, “Trans womyn who identify as womyn-born-womyn are welcome at Michfest.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for trans womyn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA