TME

See also: tme and tmě

English

Noun

TME (countable and uncountable, plural TMEs)

(surgery) Initialism of total mesorectal excision.

Adjective

TME (not comparable)

(LGBTQ) Initialism of transmisogyny-exempt: not transfeminine.
- 2023, Elliot Chudyk, The Gendered Relations of Queer(ed) Femininities: Failures, Tensions, Subversions, and Queer Potentialities‎^[1], PhD dissertation, order no. 30318654 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
  This chapter is based on sixteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with US-based transgender sex workers on the trans masculine spectrum; specifically, the sample includes seven nonbinary individuals and nine trans men who are TME (trans misogyny exempt).
- 2024, Teresa Van Winkle, Navigating the World: Understanding Gender Expression Through the Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary People‎^[2], Master's thesis, order no. 31336206 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
  Additionally, trans women and other trans feminine individuals face far elevated levels of mental and physical trauma and violence compared to their transmisogyny-exempt (TME) peers, directly related to their gender and gender expression through pervasive transmisogyny
- 2025 May, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN:
  Perhaps most famous among contemporary accounts of such condemnation is Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s (2015) pivotal text on transfeminine disposability, “Hot Allostatic Load,” which describes conditions of abjection faced by victims of unsubstantiated callouts, abuse, and ultimate abandonment. In it Heartscape traces a pattern of incorporation, exploitation, and abandonment that characterizes transfeminine involvement in self-identified “queer spaces” dominated by transmisogyny-exempt (TME) people.
Coordinate term: TMA

Anagrams

MET, MTE, EMT, Met, met., met-, met, TEM