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transfemicides

transfemicides is the plural of transfemicide.

Meaning of transfemicide

Noun

transfemicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfemicides)

  1. The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
    • When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides.2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, page 145

Questions about transfemicides

What is transfemicides the plural of?
Transfemicides is the plural of transfemicide.

Words near transfemicides in the dictionary

  1. transfemales
  2. transfemby
  3. transfemcel
  4. transfemcels
  5. transfemicide
  6. transfemicides
  7. transfeminicide
  8. transfeminicides
  9. transfeminine
  10. transfemininities
  11. transfemininity

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