Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to female-to-male
transgender people or experiences, especially the experiences of male-presentinggenderqueer people who wereassigned female at birth but who identify as more male than female.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Crystal Gonzalez , founder of Marimacho, featured her masculine clothing line for female and transmasculine bodies.
Twist on Tying the Knot Sumathi Reddy 2012
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I'm a masculine bio female, boyishly butch, transmasculine - some might call me a FTM [female to male], but I'm not totally transitioned, though I'm on a moderate dose of T [testosterone], and I'm comfortable with my body as is.
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Good luck developing a fee schedule for transmasculine orgasms.
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This can get confusing, in part because “transmasculine” is sometimes used to mean, “spectrum of male identities among ftm and ft? people,” which necessarily includes transmale high femmes.
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And this, of course, has increased the number of feminist and gender-progressive bois and transmasculine people I know.
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Appallingly, a majority of the people in our study indicated that they feared being injured or killed for being transmasculine, transfeminine, or gender-nonconforming.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Genny Beemyn 2011
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When trans women and transfeminine genderqueers are assumed to be conformist, apolitical, and weak while trans men and transmasculine genderqueers are assumed to be radical, with it, and hip, that's transmisogyny (and femmephobia, and subversivism).
The Bilerico Project 2009
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Trans as an adjective: I do not refer to myself as a transwoman for the same reason given by Lisa Harney in her comment on Cedar’s post Put the Goddamn Space in: “transwoman” “transfeminism” “transmasculine” etc (language politics #1):
Enough. 2009
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Trans as an adjective: I do not refer to myself as a transwoman for the same reason given by Lisa Harney in her comment on Cedar’s post Put the Goddamn Space in: “transwoman” “transfeminism” “transmasculine” etc (language politics #1):
trans woman 2009
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That has been borne out by personal interaction and the bois and asstd. other transmasculine people I’ve encountered here, at feministe, and at associated blogs.
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