transbutch

transbutch

English

Etymology

trans- +‎ butch (“a masculine lesbian”)

Noun

transbutch (plural transbutches)

1. 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, 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, Yasna Gardner, "Shifting the Borders: My Transbutch Herstory", The Ignatian, Volume 32 (2020), 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.