Transmasculine: Difference between revisions

The DC Area Transmasculine Society, or DCATS, is a trans-led nonprofit organization that was founded in 2000 as a monthly support group and has since started offering a variety of services, like a binder exchange program.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dcats.org/aboutus |title=Our Story |website=DCATS |access-date=4 June 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dcats.org/binderexchange |title=Binder Exchange |website=DCATS |access-date=5 June 2021 }}</ref> This organization doesn't take credit for coining the word "transmasculine," suggesting it was around before the year 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.healthline.com/health/transmasculine#origin |title=What Does It Mean to Be Transmasculine? |website=Healthline |date=13 January 2021 |access-date=4 June 2021 |quote=DCATS doesn’t take credit for coining the word, which suggests the term is older than the organization.|last=Brito|first=Janet}}</ref>

In 2010, on an essay written on his blog [https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/ Rants and Ramblings], titled ''What’s in a Word?: Crafting Transmasculine'', S. Leigh Thompson, who was president of the TransMasculine Community Network, presents the result of his work with organizers and advocates to craft a definition for the term "transmasculine." The definition suggested by Leigh was "any person who was assigned female at birth but feels that is an incomplete or incorrect description of their gender." He mentions, at the end of this blog post, that the first version of the essay had been published in 2006.<ref>Thompson, S. Leigh (24 November 2010). "[https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/whats-in-a-word-crafting-transmasculine/ What’s in a Word?: Crafting Transmasculine]". ''Rants and Ramblings.'' Retrieved 4 June 2021.</ref>

An entry for the word was added to [https://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary] by user Nico7623 on September 12th, 2013.<ref>@Nico7623 (12 September 2013). [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transmasculine transmasculine]</ref>

"Transmasculine" was one of the identities that became available in the [[Gender and social media sites|gender selection on Facebook]] in 2014.<ref>"[http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/13/facebook_custom_gender_options_here_are_all_56_custom_options.html Facebook custom gender options: Here are all 56 custom options.]", ''Slate''.  February 13th, 2014.  Accessed April 10th, 2017.</ref>

* Chinese-American autistic disability rights activist [[Lydia X. Z. Brown]] (b. 1993) is [[genderqueer]], [[nonbinary]], [[gendervague]]<ref name="Brown">{{Cite web |title=Gendervague: At the Intersection of Autistic and Trans Experiences |last=Brown |first=Lydia X. Z. |work=The Asperger / Autism Network (AANE) |date=22 June 2016 |access-date=9 June 2020 |url= https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/}}</ref> and transmasculine.<ref>{{cite tweet|user=autistichoya|author=Lydia X. Z. Brown|number=1270824027473485829|title=I'm horrified+enraged that JK Rowling isn't just openly a TERF now, but using autistic people as pawns. I'm autistic. I'm openly nonbinary and transmasculine. I was not brainwashed or manipulated into being trans. That's just rank, disgusting ableism on top of anti-trans hate.|date=10 June 2020}}</ref>

* Actor [[Ellie Desautels]] describes themself as [[nonbinary]], transmasculine<ref name="Barasch">{{Cite web |title=Rise’s Ellie Desautels Talks Playing a Transgender Teen on Network TV |last=Barasch |first=Alex |work=Slate Magazine |date=12 March 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/an-interview-with-trans-actor-ellie-desautels-star-of-nbcs-rise.html}}</ref>, [[genderqueer]]<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ohyouknowellie/ Instagram bio]</ref>, and [[agenderflux]].<ref name="dundore">{{Cite web |title=Ellie & Wren |author=Brent Dundore |work=They Them Project |date=17 August 2018 |access-date=9 April 2020 |url= https://dundorephoto.com/ellie-wren/}}</ref>

* Writer and activist [[Cyrus Grace Dunham]], a transmasculine nonbinary [[lesbian]].<ref name="advo_Writ">{{Cite web |title=Writer Cyrus Grace Dunham Shows How Messy Gender Can Be |last=Masters |first=Jeffrey |work=advocate.com |date=15 October 2019 |access-date=14 April 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/writer-cyrus-grace-dunham-shows-how-messy-gender-can-be}}</ref>

* American comedian, writer, and nurse [[Kelli Dunham]] describes herself<ref name="story">{{Cite web |title=THE STORY |author= |work=kellidunham.com |date= |access-date=24 July 2020 |url= http://www.kellidunham.com/the-story/}}</ref> as a [[genderqueer]] [[woman]]<ref name="Wood">{{Cite web |title=Q&A: Comedian Kelli Dunham on Storytelling as a Radical, Transformative Act |last=Wood |first=Erin |work=Ms. Magazine |date=15 May 2017 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://msmagazine.com/2017/05/15/qa-comedian-kelli-dunham-storytelling-radicaltransformative-act/}}</ref>/[[nonbinary]] transmasc [[butch]].<ref name="Guerrero">{{Cite web |title=Genderqueer Comic Kelli Dunham On Getting (Thee) Away From a Nunnery |last=Guerrero |first=Desirée |work=The Advocate |date=21 April 2020 |access-date=3 June 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/comedy/2020/4/21/genderqueer-comic-kelli-dunham-getting-thee-away-nunnery}}</ref>

* Writer, educator, and therapist [[Alex Iantaffi]].<ref name="DTA">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Alex Iantaffi |author=Jenkins, Andrea |work=Digital Transgender Archive |date=2015 |access-date=26 May 2020 |url= https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/3j3332502}}</ref>

* English singer, songwriter, actor, and graphic novelist [[Ciarán Strange]] (b. 2003) describes himself/themself<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ciaranstrange/ Instagram bio], retrieved 17 May 2020</ref> as [[enby]], [[trans]],<ref>{{cite tweet|user=CiaranStrange|number=1218598634801061894|date=18 January 2020|title=O HEY! :D how's it going? I'll do my best to be brief! [Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat] So I identify as both enby and trans*, not that one has to. Transgender is a sort of umbrella term that many choose to identify as, but not all. Transgender simply means you aren't [Hundred points symbol] the same as your birth certificate. >}}</ref> and transmasc.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWHBy3j3qk/ Instagram post], 12 June 2020</ref>

* One of the main characters in the romance novel ''Saving Throw'', by Alex Silver, is "Rene, a non-binary trans masc ex-hockey player turned coach."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Saving Throw |author= |work=QueeRomance Ink |date= |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://www.queeromanceink.com/book/saving-throw/}}</ref>