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English
Etymology
Clipping of transmasculine.
Adjective
transmasc (comparative more transmasc, superlative most transmasc)
- (LGBTQ) Transmasculine.
2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905:[...] the convention of masculinity through being an “alt” transmasc person (I was always explicitly non-binary) actually amounted to posturing, and ultimately allowed for more or less the same oppressions to be reinscribed, if only because I was uncritical about my position as a white [...] transmasc person.
2018, KL Reddy-Best, D Goodin, “QueerCrip fashion in the twenty-first century: Sky Cubacub and the QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement”, in Clothing Cultures: binder is a compression garment for your chest to flatten the chest. It's for other nonbinary or transmasc folks [...]
2019, Tiffany Jones, Bent Street 2: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas - 2018/2019, Clouds of Magellan, →ISBN:Quinn Eades is a queer transmasc writer and poet. Jamie & Quinn are in love. The images and poetry are from their forthcoming book, Queerdom.
Translations
Noun
transmasc (plural transmascs)
- (LGBTQ) A transmasculine person, a trans man or another person who was assigned female but whose gender identity is masculine.
2016, Sara Woods, Identifying as Transgender, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 32:[They say things like] “I'm attracted to all genders, especially androgynous people,” or, “I am primarily interested in other transmascs.”
2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905:And Literally No One treated me like shit when I identified as transmasc (I s2g, white transmascs seem to act victimized more than they materially are, and that's so much a part of the problem); [...]