tryke
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of transsexual + dyke, coined in the 1990s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /tɹaɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪk
Noun
[edit]tryke (plural trykes)
- (slang) A lesbian trans woman.
- 2005, Emanuel Xavier, Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, page 117:
- […] faggots dykes and trykes who have not found the ability or the words […]
- 2020, Riki Wilchins, Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, GenderQueer-Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, page 237:
- I mention an idea for Tryke T-shirts. "They'd say 'Trykes like dykes' on the front," I explain, and 'Dykes like Trykes' on the back. I wonder if anyone would wear them?
One of the Avengers looks at me. She is very pretty. I feel something pass between us. "I would wear it," she says. I wonder what she sees, what I've passed as.