Trans Infighting glossary terms

Terms related to conflicts and disagreements within trans communities

  • Truscum: Short for "True Transsexual Scum", A trans person who believes that you need dysphoria to be trans or that...
  • Hugboxing: A pejorative term for affirming someone regardless of their appearance. Hugboxing is a type of Toxic Positivity,...
  • Trender / Transtrender: A person accused of claiming a trans identity to be fashionable, rather than because they are actually transgender....
  • Trutrans: A person who believes themselves to be genuinely transgender in contrast to other people who are believed to be faking.
  • Tucute: Short for "too cute to be cis", a term used by truscum transmedicalists to imply any non-dysphoric or xenogender...
  • tenderqueer: An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere...
  • optics: The way in which behavior of individuals within the trans community affects our reputation from the perspective of...
  • Unclehon: A trans woman who distances herself from other trans people by adopting transphobic talking points and presenting...

Source: Brainworms Glossary category compiled from 4chan /lgbt/ and adjacent community usage.

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