Citations:transbian

Noun: "(informal) a trans lesbian"

 * 2003, Virginia Blain, "Queer Empathy: or, Reading/Writing the Queer in Victorian Poetry", Literature Compass, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2003 - December 2004, page 8:
 * Lesley Hall has intimated that she regards him as a classic transvestite, though I prefer to read him as a possible transbian, like Swinburne.
 * 2004, Virginia Blain, "Period Pains: The Changing Body of Victorian Poetry", Victorian Poetry, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2004, page 74:
 * That is to say, the erotic direction of his verse, in all its sado-masochism, seems to move in quest of female/lesbian sexuality, the feminine as desired by the female, in a way that is strongly suggestive of the transbian (a male who undergoes sex change to female, not in order to pursue an erotic desire for the male, but rather, for the female: "transbian" is a more precise term than "male lesbian").
 * 2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Autumn Changes: Part III, page 930:
 * Our trans meeting at the clinic breaks up, after a discussion about transbians.
 * 2011, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life, Pink Hair: What It's Like Being The Pink Sheep Of The Family, page 186:
 * To give an opinionated answer, I'd say no, I do not think that there is a trend toward all transsexuals becoming transbians.
 * 2014, Timothy Cwiek, "City defends treatment of trans worker", Philadelphia Gay News, 14 March - 20 March 2014, page 19:
 * The complaints run the gamut – that Burnett "grunted" too loudly when defecating, that she spoke with her mouth full during lunch, that she was lazy, that she referred to a transgender lesbian as a "transbian,"
 * 2015, Donna Barbara Riley, "Lost and Found: Transgender Elders’ Journey Toward Authenticity A Constructionist Grounded Theory Study", dissertation submitted to Stony Brook University, page 140:
 * As an example, one of the respondents, Renee, a 69-year-old transwoman self identified as a “transbian.”
 * 2018, Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, David Frost, Allison Cabana, & Shéár Avory, "Refusing To Check The Box: Participatory inqueery at the radical rim", in The Methodological Dilemma Revisited: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research for a New Era (ed. Kathleen Gallagher), unnumbered page:
 * (Queer, a Transbian, GNC, Transfemme trying to figure it out, In process, White)
 * 2018, Valerie Pleasant, "Women Problems", Montréal Writes, March 2018, page 16:
 * “So, I'm a butch transbian, so by most standards I'm literally just a cis-het dude-”
 * 2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 235:
 * During this time, I've developed a theory about trans lesbian (transbian) relationships: they are strange loops, our sexual orientation endlessly flipping back and forth in transphobes' minds like a liar's paradox: gay, straight, gay again, now straight, gay, and so on.