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 2023-05-29:

     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 2020-08-29:

     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 2021-10-26:

     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 2021-10-08:

     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 2022-03-13:

     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 (2020 August 10) “A Glossary Of Transphobia”, in Medium
• “Troon (Slang)”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007

• IPA^(key): /troːn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oːn

From Middle Dutch trone, from Old French trone.

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)

Declension of troon (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		troon	troonid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	trooni
genitive			troonide
partitive		trooni	troone troonisid
illative		trooni troonisse	troonidesse troonesse
inessive		troonis	troonides troones
elative		troonist	troonidest troonest
allative		troonile	troonidele troonele
adessive		troonil	troonidel troonel
ablative		troonilt	troonidelt troonelt
translative		trooniks	troonideks trooneks
terminative		troonini	troonideni
essive		troonina	troonidena
abessive		troonita	troonideta
comitative		trooniga	troonidega

• “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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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)