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The term tranny and the porn industry
Tranny is a common term in the porn industry for male-to-female preoperative transexuals (also commonly referred to as shemales or chicks-with dicks). The usage of tranny on porn is common enough I think it deserves a mention. --50.152.139.176 (talk) 10:31, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
"Trans"
So if "Tranny" is slang, how come "trans" is in the article? What is "The trans community"? I doubt transgender, transsexual, transvestite people etc. all consider themselves part of one group: so it is equally ambivalent and possibly needlessly offensive. WP:NOTCENSORED, but we should say what we mean. Si Trew (talk) 13:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
The term tranny is not pejorative in the UK
In English from England, and the rest of the UK, tranny is usually not derogatory, as you can finde tranny day parties in many bars and clubs over the country. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaimitoso (talk • contribs) 13:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Jaimitoso: you'll need sources for that. This source [1] suggests it still is. Doug Weller talk 13:15, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Requested move 11 June 2018
– The other articles in the dab page don't even mention tranny. With google scholar and books results being near exclusive for this usage, it is pretty clear that the primary topic for the title "Tranny" is the slang. Galobtter (pingó mió) 13:46, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Survey
- Support Even if the transmission usage is also prevalent, the slang term for transvestites is the only topic currently notable enough to have an article about it. (The actual term, not what it refers to).ZXCVBNM (TALK) 07:47, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose, move instead to Tranny (personal slang) or similar - Can't find any evidence for this being the primary usage over the transmission, per Google Ngrams. Also, the current title is still ambiguous as this word is also slang for other topics. Tranny (slang) really should point to the disambiguation page per WP:INCDAB. Other option is merge somewhere since the current article is basically a paragraph and unlikely to grow further. Perfect though for a section somewhere else. -- Netoholic @ 07:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support. What is the non-slang use of tranny? Nine Zulu queens (talk) 08:07, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
- It was once slang for transistor radio - see Danny's Tranny for a comic strip whose title has not dated at all well - but that's dropped away heavily for multiple reasons. Timrollpickering 11:42, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support per Zxcvbnm; I don't find it likely that anyone interested in car transmission would use this term to get there (and, nitpicking, tranny is also a slang term for transmission). No such user (talk) 14:33, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support – Seems obvious PT. — JFG talk 15:25, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support. Seems logical to me. Rreagan007 (talk) 16:26, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support. Pretty likely PTOPIC. feminist (talk) 10:11, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
- I'm probably inclined to oppose because several dictionaries put the auto transmission usage first[2][3][4][5]. On the other hand, the OED puts trans person usage first, so that's something. I don't have much faith in search engine tests, and I don't see how a search focused on formal writing such as that in Google Books or Google Scholar is likely to tell us much about a slang term. I'd rather trust the expertise of lexicographers than whatever a search engine spits out in a given instance. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:42, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hmm, interesting. Merriam-webster says "or less commonly trannie slang, sometimes disparaging" for referring to transgender people vs the transmission. Main thing that I saw was that our articles don't even mention tranny as being slang for transmission, and thus I didn't think it was of much importance relatively, and as zxcvbnm says, this term itself has an entire article vs for the other uses. Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:01, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
- Maybe what needs correction is those other articles. —Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)