trans*
SayTRANS/tɹæns/
- 1Having any gender identity other than cisgender, used as an umbrella term for transgender and transsexual people and often also for nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, and third-gender people.
The center's new guide is written for trans* and gender-nonconforming students.
Several trans* activists spoke at the city council meeting about health coverage.
Similartransgender
Oppositecisgender
Note
The asterisk is borrowed from computing, where it acts as a wildcard for any ending, so the spelling itself makes the point: one stem, any completion, transgender or transsexual alike. Like other adjectives of identity, it sits before a noun or after be (trans* students, she is trans*), and it is not compared.
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Origin
Formed from trans + *, the asterisk used as a wildcard in programming, to show that it could stand for transgender or transsexual.