Talk:tranny

Julia Serano

Julia Serano wrote a lengthy piece on this word: A Personal History of the “T-word” (and some more general reflections on language and activism)--Brainy J (talk) 14:05, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Radio-related sense

Im curious about the origin of the word and whether it became well established as a slang term for people at a time when it meant something wholly different ... apparently a Guardian writer named Stanley Reynolds used the term trannymen in 1974 to refer to not transgenders, not transvestites, but ... men carrying around boomboxes close up to their ears. Transistor radios, apparently. Searching for "stanley reynolds trannymen" will bring up an article about the article, but the original Guardian article does not turn up. —Soap— 18:52, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Just a note that since the citations were all of "Trannymen" as a term for something along the lines of "radio players", not for "tranny" as a term for ~"radio", I moved Citations:tranny to Citations:trannymen. - -sche (discuss) 21:35, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

OK thanks. I meant to say that the page comes up on an image search, not a normal text search. Direct link is https://wordhistories.net/2017/11/05/rules-ok-origin/ but the site uses a script that preempts the user's copypaste so the image is my main focus. —Soap— 04:45, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Use for transistor

In the electronic world, the terms is sometimes also used to colloquially refer to a transistor. --2001:871:22B:CE44:34DE:49A6:9468:73D 00:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)