Femme

Spanish translation: femme

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English term or phrase:	Femme
Spanish translation:	femme
Entered by:	yugoslavia

09:46 Mar 3, 2024

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Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Filipino Mythology and folklore.

English term or phrase: Femme

I would like to know the best translation of this phrase from French or American English into Venezuelan Spanish.

Colleagues from Spain, other parts of Latin America and France, feel free to send me your suggestions as well.

It's a translation about a LGBT human rights meeting conference for Latin People living in the USA and also Americans readers.

I'm sorry about the duplicate question with different language pairs. I didn't get any replies from Venezuela or other parts of Latin America.

Is it okay to translate it as Fem "in" this type of context?

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Is an entity-sick, disabled, trans, queer, femme, cultural worker, scholar, aswang, cyborg, and more-with ancestors from the archipelago referred to as the Philippines. They currently reside in Duwamish territory (Seattle, WA) and previously lived in Jamestown S'Klallam land (Sequim, WA..)

yugoslavia KudoZ activity Questions: 1993 (3 open) (3 without valid answers) (7 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United States
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femme

Explanation:
Se utiliza tal cual en la comunidad LGTB para referirse a la expresión de género femenino de una persona.

Ver por ejemplo aquí:
Femme es un término usado en la cultura LGBT para describir a alguien que se expresa de una manera típicamente femenina.
Hay otras identidades dentro del alcance de femme, como 'low femme', 'high femme' y 'hard femme'. No debe usar estos términos sobre alguien a menos que sepa que se identifica con ellos.
https://www.circulodeapoyopositivo.org/terminos-lgbtiq

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Chema Nieto Castañón
Spain
Local time: 21:16

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Muchas gracias Chema!
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femme

Chema Nieto Castañón

una lesbiana feminina

Adrian MM.

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Femme

Karin Monteiro-Zwahlen

Femme (2)

Aitor Salaberria

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2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

femme

Chema Nieto Castañón
Spain
Local time: 21:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 44

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Muchas gracias Chema!

Notes to answerer

Asker: Muchas gracias por tu ayuda Chema.

1 day 14 hrs confidence:

femme una lesbiana feminina

Explanation:
- as opposed to a 'butch' lesbian or Tomboy : una lesbiana masculina.

I seem to recall that the effeminate vs. masculine divide had been around, both in the UK and in Spain / on the Spanish Islands of Majorca aka Mallorca and the Canaries, in the Swinging Nineeteen Sixties, albeit the former not called 'femme' in French back then.

Example sentence(s):

A “femme lesbian” is a lesbian with a more feminine-leaning style or energy. They are the one in the relationship who might wear a dress to a wedding and actually knows how to walk in heels (even if they’re just kitten heels).
Femme is a term traditionally used to describe a lesbian woman who exhibits a feminine identity or gender presentation.

Reference: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
Reference: http://context.reverso.net/translation/spanish-english/lesbi...

Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of:

English

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for your help Adrian.

Reference comments

29 mins peer agreement (net): +2

Reference: Femme

Reference information:
The term femme in English is normally related to an lesbian women with a femenine identity or gender (but it seems strange in your text)

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Note added at 40 mins (2024-03-03 10:27:33 GMT)
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It seems strange to me that in a text that seems to include different people it only refers to a specific homosexual identity.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/femme

Karin Monteiro-Zwahlen
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Note to reference poster

Asker: Hi Miss Monteiro, thanks for your message. What exactly is strange in this English text? Please let me know. Yugoslavia

Asker: Feel free to write to me in the Spanish language. Yugoslavia

2 hrs

Reference: Femme (2)

Reference information:
Parece ser que se usa como préstamo.

Example sentence(s):

Término anglosajón que define la transformación de las relaciones de las lesbianas «femeninas» con su identidad lésbica, su interacción con su identidad de género y la expresión de la misma.
Femme también se emplea frecuentemente en la comunidad transgénero.

https://rebelionfeminista.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/femme/
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_y_femme

Aitor Salaberria
Spain
Native speaker of:

Basque

Note to reference poster

Asker: Muchas gracias por vuestra ayuda Aitor.

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