transdar

English

Etymology

From trans +‎ -dar, after the pattern of gaydar.

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Noun

transdar (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is transgender by observing that person.
    • 1996 July 24, Janet W. Hardy, “Re: Independence Day - The movie”, in bit.listserv.words-l‎[1] (Usenet):
      I found out about 20 minutes into the workshop that at least six of the men in attendance had been born women. Not one of them had twigged my "transdar."
    • 2000 July 26, Cheryl, “Re: everyone flame me, I deserve it.”, in soc.support.transgendered‎[2] (Usenet):
      My hearing isn't that great, but my transdar immediately zoned in on him.
    • 2013, Asia Friedman, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59:
      Other respondents offered similar descriptions of transdar as a keen understanding of the most important sex cues.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transdar.

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