girlmode
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
girlmode (uncountable)
- (transgender slang) The state of presenting as female, regardless of one's actual gender identity, especially of a trans man.
- Coordinate term: boymode
- 2002 February 19, Annie, “Bumping into friends”, in alt.transgendered[1] (Usenet):
- Saw another cow-orker at a local big hoity-toity benefit gala. Just went up and tapped him on the shoulder. Of course I told two others who were with me to follow me if they wanted to see a real goodie. He was very shocked, but cool about it. :) Took him a few seconds to realize just who I was, even though he had seen me in girlmode at the office H'ween party.
- 2022, Anna Burns, “Gender, Traffic, and Other Such Annoyances”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, 2nd edition, Oxford UP, →ISBN, page 189:
- I was driving home late from seeing my friends in girlmode, and got stuck in a massive traffic jam. The guy in the car next to me gets out to check the traffic and stretch. In the process he saw me and gave me that look, and kept glancing my way for a while.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:girlmode.
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
girlmode (third-person singular simple present girlmodes, present participle girlmoding, simple past and past participle girlmoded)
- (transgender slang, intransitive) To present as female, regardless of one's actual gender identity, especially of a trans man.
- Coordinate term: boymode