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/ˈklɒki/ · adjective
(transgender slang) Clearly identifiable as transgender; capable of being easily clocked; not passing..
Of course, I recommend these places to my conformist trans girlfriends, who like me were and are bound by our internalised transphobia to do everything we possibly can to not be 'clocky', as we hand out verbal awards of 'fishy' to one another as commendations for doing our best to pass.
"I get super clocky," says Blossom, meaning that others may presume she is trans, not cis.
You cringe at someone clocky. You cringe, morbidly; thank God someone out there is clockier than you.
Chyna, real name Joanie Laurer, was one of the clockiest cis women in history, and I mean that as a compliment. Born in 1969 in Rochester, NY, Chyna looked like an absolute monster, packing 200 pounds of muscle onto her thick-jawed, five-foot-ten frame.
Use clocky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clocky means (transgender slang) Clearly identifiable as transgender; capable of being easily clocked; not passing..
Common synonyms include clockable.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Of course, I recommend these places to my conformist trans girlfriends, who like me were and are bound by our internalised transphobia to do everything we possibly can to not be 'clocky', as we hand out verbal awards of 'fishy' to one another as commendations for doing our best to pass.
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