transness

English

Etymology

trans +‎ -ness

Noun

transness (uncountable)

The condition or quality or being transgender/transsexual.
- 2013, Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, Seal Press (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  Clearly, these were folks who chose to view my transness as an “affliction” (despite the fact that I did not portray it that way myself).
- 2014, Diane Anderson-Minshall & Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders, Bold Strokes Books (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  Now though, I've been thinking more about the idea that one can be attracted to transgender men (or women) in part because of their transness, not (as mainstream culture seems to think) in spite of it.
- 2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Atria (2014), →ISBN, page 248:
  My transness felt irrelevant to most of my informal, passing relationships. It was not something I discussed upon meeting someone.

Synonyms

(condition of being transgender): transgenderness, transgenderedness (sometimes offensive); see transgendered
(condition of being transsexual): transsexualness

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