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'''Transmasculine''', sometimes abbreviated to '''transmasc''', is an [[umbrella term]] that describes a transgender person (generally one who was assigned [[Sexes#Assigned_female_at_birth|female at birth]]), and whose gender is masculine and/or who express themselves in a masculine way. <ref>Mardell, A. The ABC's of LGBT+. p.98.</ref><ref name="trans bodies 620">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 620.</ref> Transmasculine people feel a connection with masculinity, but do not always identify as male. Transmasculine people can include, but are not limited to: trans men, [[Demigender#Demiboy|demiboys]], [[multigender]] people, [[genderfluid]] people and [[nonbinary]] people, as long as they identify with masculinity. [[Transfeminine]] is the feminine equivalent of transmasculine. | '''Transmasculine''', sometimes abbreviated to '''transmasc''', is an [[umbrella term]] that describes a transgender person (generally one who was assigned [[Sexes#Assigned_female_at_birth|female at birth]]), and whose gender is masculine and/or who express themselves in a masculine way. <ref>Mardell, A. The ABC's of LGBT+. p.98.</ref><ref name="trans bodies 620">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 620.</ref> Transmasculine people feel a connection with masculinity, but do not always identify as male. Transmasculine people can include, but are not limited to: [[man#transgender men|trans men]], [[Demigender#Demiboy|demiboys]], [[multigender]] people, [[genderfluid]] people and [[nonbinary]] people, as long as they identify with masculinity. [[Transfeminine]] is the feminine equivalent of transmasculine. | ||
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Revision as of 21:58, 3 October 2020
Transmasculine, sometimes abbreviated to transmasc, is an umbrella term that describes a transgender person (generally one who was assigned female at birth), and whose gender is masculine and/or who express themselves in a masculine way. [1][2] Transmasculine people feel a connection with masculinity, but do not always identify as male. Transmasculine people can include, but are not limited to: trans men, demiboys, multigender people, genderfluid people and nonbinary people, as long as they identify with masculinity. Transfeminine is the feminine equivalent of transmasculine.
Notable people
There is more information about this topic here: notable nonbinary people
Notable people who consider their identity to be outside the Western gender binary, and who describe themselves as transmasculine include:
- Writer, educator, and therapist Alex Iantaffi.[3]
- American musician Anjimile, who identifies as a nonbinary transmasc queer boi.[4]
- Writer and activist Cyrus Grace Dunham, a transmasculine nonbinary lesbian.[5]
References
- ↑ Mardell, A. The ABC's of LGBT+. p.98.
- ↑ Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 620.
- ↑ Jenkins, Andrea (2015). "Interview with Alex Iantaffi". Digital Transgender Archive. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ↑ @anjimilemusic (Feb 25, 2019). "thank u thank u :) however I am not a girl, I'm a non-binary transmasc queer boi who uses they/them and he/him pronouns 🤘🏾" – via Twitter.
- ↑ Masters, Jeffrey (15 October 2019). "Writer Cyrus Grace Dunham Shows How Messy Gender Can Be". advocate.com. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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