transmasculinity

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Etymology

From trans- +‎ masculinity.

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Noun

transmasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural transmasculinities)

  1. The quality of being transmasculine.
    • 2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:
      [] Transmasculinity is not a special—or single—type of masculinity. It is more aptly described as a context: masculinity as enacted by people with transgender identities.
    • 2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page:
      For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.

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