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femme queen
What does femme queen mean?
In the ballroom gender system, a femme queen is a trans woman — someone living as and identifying as a woman, including those medically transitioning. It's one of the scene's foundational gender categories, sitting alongside butch queens and butches. Femme queens have their own categories — Femme Queen Realness, Femme Queen Performance, Face — where they're judged within their own population rather than against cis women.
"She's a femme queen and she's been untouchable in FQ Realness for three seasons."
Frequently asked questions
What does femme queen mean?
It's a ballroom term for a trans woman.
How do you use femme queen in a sentence?
"She walked the femme queen category and served every look."
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