troon

Blend of transgender +‎ goon (“member of Something Awful”). Coined in the comedy website and internet forum Something Awful in the late 2000s.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹuːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹun/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʉːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

troon (plural troons)

2. (anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person; most commonly, a trans woman.

   Coordinate term: pooner

   • 2016 September 19, @uchimatador, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 May 2023:

     Good Woke Boys pretending like they didn't obsessively post "troons are mentally ill" for 5 years is my favorite* part of twitter

   • 2020 August 29, @fifyfomum, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on 29 August 2020:

     When the troons speak about ‘gender neutral spaces’ ALWAYS maintain they are promoting unisex spaces.

   • 2021 October 26, @coolestrogen, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 26 October 2021:

     how do I wear skirts without coming off like a troon twitter no-fashion-sense transbian

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:troon.

• Despite the term's offensive connotations, it has seen some usage by transgender people, particularly on sites like 4chan's /lgbt/ board.

troon (third-person singular simple present troons, present participle trooning, simple past and past participle trooned)

2. (intransitive, Internet slang, chiefly derogatory, offensive) To undergo gender transition.

   Synonym: troon out

   • 2020 December 15, anonymous author, 4chan‎^[4], /lgbt/:

     Everyone was a hon back then and trooning at that age still guarantees that you'll be a hon.

   • 2021 November 25, anonymous author, 4chan‎^[5], /lgbt/:

     How old were you when you trooned?

   • 2022 December 29, anonymous author, 4chan‎^[6], /lgbt/:

     >Are you trooning?
     yeah I started trooning five years ago kek

4. (transitive, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) To make someone undergo gender transition.
   • 2021 October 8, @primalplat, Twitter‎^[7], archived from the original on 8 October 2021:

     wait, i thought yu get forcebly trooned if you do the gay in iran? white man propaganda?

   • 2022 March 13, @autistocrates, Twitter‎^[8], archived from the original on 13 March 2022:

     Is it so strange that our time is dominated by mental illness, that our men are trooned and our civilization is torn apart by screeching women? Deny a God, suffer a God's wrath.

   • 2023 March 15, anonymous author, 4chan‎^[9], /lgbt/:

     I don't support trooning kids because I'd be bitter they get to transition earlier than I did.

• troons (“trousers”)

• “Online Anti-LGBTQ Hate Terms Defined: “Troon””, in GLAAD, launched 2022
• “Troon”, in Hatepedia, Online Hate Research and Education Project, launched 2022
• Gemma Stone (10 August 2020) “A Glossary Of Transphobia”, in Medium
• “Troon (Slang)”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007

• IPA^(key): /troːn/

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• Rhymes: -oːn

From Middle Dutch trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “seat, throne”).

troon m (plural tronen, diminutive troontje n)

1. throne (ornamental seat)
2. (Christianity, angelology) throne (angel of an order between cherubim and dominions)

   Synonyms: cherub, macht, seraf, serafijn

• Negerhollands: troon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

troon

1. inflection of tronen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• “troon” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• toorn

Borrowed from German Thron, borrowed from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, borrowed from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos).

troon (genitive trooni, partitive trooni)

1. throne (ornamental seat)

• “troon”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• troon in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Unadapted borrowing from English troon.

• IPA^(key): /tʁun/

troon m or f by sense (plural troons)

1. (anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) troon (transgender person)

   Coordinate term: pooner

   • 2023 August 3, Twitter:

     Mdrrr pourquoi les troons ils bandent toujours sur la violence alors qu’ils font strictement rien irl

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   • 2023 August 3, Twitter:

     Trop bien ça fait quoi d’être en coloc avec toutes les troons de Paris???

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)