Talk:trans patient

RFD discussion: June–October 2022

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trans patient

As it is defined, this is SOP. I imagine this could mean a patient undergoing gender reassignment, which would make it idiomatic. Or as an alternative form of transpatient, naturally. Pious Eterino (talk) 17:11, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. Delete or improve. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 18:45, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

This would be saved by WT:COALMINE at the very least. A lot of the hits on Google Books/Scholar using "transpatient" are scannos. However, I've verified that the following sources actually use the term with no space or hyphen: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] [6], [7]. All of these either have the original PDF available and the spelling can be confirmed, or they use the term repeatedly, or both. Not all of these are obviously using it to refer to someone undergoing gender reassignment, e.g. the last one. 98.170.164.88 19:12, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Keep per WT:COALMINE. Binarystep (talk) 00:39, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

AFAICT it's very SOP, but if COALMINE keeps it, meh. - -sche (discuss) 09:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Actually, it might be worth investigating whether the supposed COALMINE cites should be considered misspellings, because it's strange that this would be written without a space: if the patient goes grocery shopping after they leave the hospital, are they a transdriver and a transshopper, and later a transeater of food? - -sche (discuss) 19:26, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Keep. I've found 12 citations for transpatient. This thus passes COALMINE. I wouldn't categorize transpatient as a misspelling either. My guess is that it emerged with authors who favour transwoman/transman. Those generally aren't considered misspellings, although they have come to be proscribed. It's unsurprising that there's a body of literature discussing trans people as patients when transition is often a medical process. If trans people come up in the context of driving (maybe issues with gender markers on IDs?), then we'll probably start seeing transdiver, for better or worse. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 09:34, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Kept Pious Eterino (talk) 17:44, 4 October 2022 (UTC)