Cookie Cutter and removing transparent pixels

Unlike crop, when I used the cookie cutter, the transparent pixels remained after I accepted the cut.  Doing a Ctrl-click in the Layers panel > Image menu > Crop, only did a crop rectangle delimited by the x/y max of the shape.
Is there an easy way to remove all of them, that is following the outline of the shape?

Every digital image ever is rectangular (or square). That's the whole point of transparency: it lets your rectangular image look like it's shaped like a star or a sailboat or a german shepherd, even though it isn't.

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