transyouth
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of a South Korean youth subculture highly active on social media.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The state or condition of being a transgender or transsexual adolescent or young adult.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Transyouth are in the transitional phase between youth and adulthood and have been the pioneers of the flourishing network culture in South Korea at the convergence of analog and digital."
- "In South Korea, mobile phones have created a new population called transyouths who connect to each other through screens and PC bangs (J.H-j. Choi, 2010)."
- "The harassment of Latina/o trans-youths who came in for services became a point of contention for many of the youth clients seeking assistance."
- "Because of much of the validation the transyouth have experienced through the Internet and small group discussions, they are arriving on campuses with less trepidation and fear; instead, announcing, "here I am, I need services: housing, […]"
- "In addition, since many policies intent on helping address sexism have replicated a binary gender divide, transyouth and other gender nonconforming youth may face difficulties that go beyond policies intent on protecting women from bias."