In automotive communities, "tranny" is frequently used as common slang for a vehicle's . You will often find videos and social media posts discussing repairs, failures, or performance upgrades (like the 4L60E) using this shorthand.
Musician Laura Jane Grace titled her memoir "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sell-out" to reclaim a word that had been used to dehumanize her.
The majority of mainstream discourse focuses on retiring the word due to its association with violence and harassment:
In the late 1990s, filmmaker Christopher Lee founded Tranny Fest in San Francisco to provide a space for transgender and gender-non-conforming filmmakers to showcase their work.