Verb: Transplain; Third person present: transplains; past tense : transplained; past participle: transplained; gerund or past particple: transplaining
(Of a trans person) explaining (something) typically to a non trans person, usually about trans issues or identity/categorization in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
(Of a trans person) explaining (something) typically to a non trans person, usually about trans issues or identity/categorization in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
'Jeremy called Doug by their old name ..Verna.. and now Doug has been transplainging to Jeremy about identify for the last half hour'
by Tyson Ardo May 16, 2020
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by SwarmGoddammit September 21, 2013
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When a transgendered person (typically someone who is assigned male at birth) talks down to cisgendered people (typically cisgendered women) about various topics including biology, gender, gender expression, privilege, etc. Often it is an outlandish idea or talking point that when opposed by a cisgendered person the trans individual or followers of said individual will call the cisgendered person a bigot or transphobic for lack of a better argument.
Amab Transfemme: I take HRT and it gives me a period. I get tender breasts, cramps and I'm super hormonal at certain times of the month.
Cis woman: I'm sorry but that's not a period. You don't have a uterus or ovaries so that's physically impossible.
Amab transfemme: My period is very real to me! I do everything but bleed! You're being exclusionary to trans women! How privileged you are to be Cis! You're transphobic!
Cisgender woman: Did you just transplain my own bodily function to me?
Cis woman: I'm sorry but that's not a period. You don't have a uterus or ovaries so that's physically impossible.
Amab transfemme: My period is very real to me! I do everything but bleed! You're being exclusionary to trans women! How privileged you are to be Cis! You're transphobic!
Cisgender woman: Did you just transplain my own bodily function to me?
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Me: This party is lit! Granny: you lit what?? Do you need a match? Me: Let me Gransplain...This is a very exciting party. Granny: What? Me: GOOD PARTY!
by Jaybird417 December 24, 2018
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Jimmy's newly uncurved Red Sox hat and Edgar Rentaria jersey showed that he was clearly a fansplant, in fact he was from upstate New York.
by C.D. Di Guardia January 10, 2006
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by shoottheprotesters March 23, 2022
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