Transyouth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Transyouth is a noun meaning A member of a South Korean youth subculture highly active on social media.
Meaning
A member of a South Korean youth subculture highly active on social media.
More Meanings
- (countable) A transgender or transsexual adolescent or young adult.
- (uncountable) Transgender or transsexual youths, collectively.
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being a transgender or transsexual adolescent or young adult.
Example Sentences
The harassment of Latina/o trans-youths who came in for services became a point of contention for many of the youth clients seeking assistance.
In South Korea, mobile phones have created a new population called transyouths who connect to each other through screens and PC bangs (J.H-j. Choi, 2010).
Transyouth are in the transitional phase between youth and adulthood and have been the pioneers of the flourishing network culture in South Korea at the convergence of analog and digital.
In addition, since many policies intent on helping address sexism have replicated a binary gender divide, transyouth and other gender nonconforming youth may face difficulties that go beyond policies intent on protecting women from bias.
Word Forms
- transyouths
- trans-youth
- trans youth
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transgal, scene, teenybopper, t-girl, tryke, sone.
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