transbutch
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trans- + butch (“a masculine lesbian”).
Noun
[edit]transbutch (plural transbutches)
- An AFAB person whose gender identity or gender expression is intermediate between butch and transmasculine.
- 2003, Arturo J. Aldama, Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State[1], page 290:
- In this video, Lee and Hurwitz construct a finely calibrated landscape of a transmasculinity made up of heterosexual FTMs, queer-identified FTMs, gay male FTMs, transfags, and transbutches, although none of these terms is mutually exclusive.
- 2014, Jen Manion, "Transbutch", Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, May 2014:
- Transbutches embody a third space (with others) between the uncritical celebration of “womanhood” and its rejection entirely.
- 2020, J. J. Petit, “Shifting the Borders: My Transbutch Herstory”, in The Ignatian[2], volume 32, page 70:
- I know so many transbutches who remain in the dark and I wanted to let them know it's ok to be themselves.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transbutch.
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