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transfeminicide

transfeminicide is the alternative form 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

Forms of transfeminicide

pluraltransfeminicides

Origin of transfeminicide

From trans- + feminicide.

Questions about transfeminicide

What is transfeminicide the alternative form of?
Transfeminicide is the alternative form of transfemicide.

Words near transfeminicide in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transfeminicide (page history and authors); transfemicide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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