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transmisogyny

UK/tɹænz.mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni//tɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/

transmisogyny noun: hatred of or contempt for trans women.

Noun

transmisogyny (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) Hatred of or contempt for trans women.
    • The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . ....2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, Edinburgh University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 146
    • I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199

Forms of transmisogyny

alternative formtrans-misogyny

Origin of transmisogyny

From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in 2006 and popularised in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).

Words formed from transmisogyny

Questions about transmisogyny

What does transmisogyny mean?
Transmisogyny means hatred of or contempt for trans women.
What part of speech is transmisogyny?
Transmisogyny is a noun.
How do you pronounce transmisogyny?
Transmisogyny is pronounced /tɹænz.mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/ (UK).

Words near transmisogyny in the dictionary

  1. transmisic
  2. transmisogynist
  3. transmisogynistic
  4. transmisogynists
  5. transmisogynoir
  6. transmisogyny
  7. transmisogyny-affected
  8. transmisogyny-exempt
  9. transmiss
  10. transmissable
  11. transmissed

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