trans womyn

English

Etymology

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

Noun

trans womyn (plural trans womyn)

  1. (very rare) Feminist spelling of trans woman and trans women.
    • 2011, Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN), quoting Marja Erwin:
      "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."
    • 2017, Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, NYU Press (ISBN 9781479855407), page 91, quoting a MichFest statement:
      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.”

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