tucute

English

Etymology

Clipping of too cute to be cisgender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːkjuːt/

Noun

tucute (plural tucutes)

1. (Internet slang, neologism) A person who believes that gender dysphoria is not an essential requirement for being transgender.
   • 2018 December 14, Natalie Cerf, “How The Media And The LGBTQ+ Community Interact”, in Redwood Bark, Redwood High School, Larkspur, CA, page 14:

     McConnell said that because of this, people who do have gender dysphoria and wish to take those same hormones or have the surgery have less access to these resources as "tucutes" have already used some of them.

   • 2019, Jessica Rae Fisher, "Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century", thesis submitted to Kennesaw State University (May 2019), page 38:

     Generally, tucutes are defined by their belief that gender dysphoria isn’t necessary to be transgender.

   • 2019, Olliver Benton, "'I'm Not Afraid of My Name Anymore'", Aerial (Atherton High School, Louisville, KY), Volume 94, Issue 4, Summer 2019, page 33:

     I personally fall closer to the transmedicalist end of the transmed/tucute political spectrum; but, my position does not give me, or any other person in the transmed or tucute community, the right to belittle other people.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tucute.

   Antonyms: transmedicalist, transmed, truscum (derogatory)

Translations

Translations

• French: tucute