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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>https://www.dcats.org/aboutus</ref><ref>https://www.dcats.org/binderexchange</ref> This organization doesn't take credit for coining the word "transmasculine," suggesting it was around before the year 2000.<ref>https://www.healthline.com/health/transmasculine#origin</ref>
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>https://www.dcats.org/aboutus</ref><ref>https://www.dcats.org/binderexchange</ref> This organization doesn't take credit for coining the word "transmasculine," suggesting it was around before the year 2000.<ref>https://www.healthline.com/health/transmasculine#origin</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>https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/whats-in-a-word-crafting-transmasculine/</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. [https://sleighthompson.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/whats-in-a-word-crafting-transmasculine/ What’s in a Word?: Crafting Transmasculine], ''Rants and Ramblings.'' November 24th, 2010. Accessed June 4th, 2021.</ref>


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