General Trans
General Trans glossary terms
Gender-neutral transgender terminology that applies across different identities
- Trans: A more modern term that refers to anyone under the transgender, transsexual, transvestite, and nonbinary umbrellas....
- Deadname: A person's birth-assigned name from pre-transition.
- T4T: Trans for Trans. This refers to trans people seeking other trans people for dating or hook-up purposes. It can also...
- Tranner: A trans person, especially an MTF trans person. Originates from 4chan and typically refers to trans people from...
- Transgender: Denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with the sex registered for them at birth.
- Transsexual: An older term for trans people coined by Magnus Hirschfeld, who first documented trans people in the West....
- Transvestite: Transvestism is the practice of dressing in a manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex. An older term...
- Troon: Transgender Goon. A slur used for transgender people originating from Something Awful, but now largely used by the...
- Trooning out: The act of becoming trans, publically starting your transition, and irreversibly realizing you are trans. Carries...
- Transmaxxing: An incel term that describes the act of transitioning from male to female in order to improve their perceived sexual...
- Tranny: A slur used against trans people (particularly transwomen) by transphobes. It is increasingly reclaimed by the trans...
- T-slur pass: The social permission to say the word tranny without being considered as transphobic. T-slur pass is a direct...
- T-slur: The transgender equivalent of saying "N-word", with the slur itself being Tranny.
- 🚂🦵: Algospeak for Tranny to avoid social media bans. 🚂Train 🦵Knee
- 🚬🐐: Algospeak for Faggot to avoid social media bans. 🚬Fag (British for cigarette) 🐐Goat
- Fembrained: The state of having a feminine brain, personality, and mannerisms. This is a compliment for MTFs and an insult for FTMs.
- Malebrained: The state of having a masculine brain, personality, and mannerisms. This is a compliment for FTMs and an insult for...
- Location Maxxing: The act of moving to a region or city which is more accepting of trans people in order to avoid discrimination and...
- Gender Dysphoria: A feeling of distress or "wrongness" due to the contrast between a person's internal sense of their gender and their...
- Gender Euphoria: A feeling of euphoria caused by a transperson's appearance, self-perception, or treatment by others being in...
Source: Brainworms Glossary category compiled from 4chan /lgbt/ and adjacent community usage.