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transnormative

/tɹænzˈnɔː(ɹ).mə.tɪv/

transnormative adjective: pertaining to, exhibiting, or consistent with transnormativity.

Adjective

transnormative (comparative more transnormative, superlative most transnormative)

  1. Pertaining to, exhibiting, or consistent with transnormativity.
    • In this metaphor, transnormative subjects “before the law” are likely to be those in the “but for” group, closest to the floor above. A transnormative approach seeks inclusion in existing political and social arrangements, and, like its cognate, “homonormative,” describes a politics in which...2017, Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 37
    • While Spade excoriates the medical establishment as a regulatory system deeply invested in stereotypical binary gender, he also complicates transnormative narratives of transition that are invested in the reification of hegemonic medical constructions of transition as a linear, teleological path...2017, Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin, Angela Willey, Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 162
  2. Crossing norms.
    • 7.3 The Function and Form of Transnormative Law
      Recapitulating ongoing debates, five distinct but overlapping characteristics of this kind of transnormative law can be observed: Intercontextualty: Nation-state law [...]
      […]
      Despite the entangled character and coevolutionary structure of national...2014, Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld, Evolutionary Governance Theory: Theory and Applications, Springer, →ISBN
    • Stylistic experimentation and mix is also central to transnormative practice in the 'biggest village on Earth'. Thus the lyrics of bands often fuse Western hardcore and local folk motifs and musicians are comfortable playing simultaneously in various stylistically different bands (e.g. in a...2014, Ivan Gololobov, Hilary Pilkington, Yngvar B Steinholt, Punk in Russia: Cultural mutation from the “useless” to the “moronic”, Routledge, →ISBN

Examples of transnormative in a sentence

  • In this metaphor, transnormative subjects “before the law” are likely to be those in the “but for” group, closest to the floor above.2017, Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 37:
  • By transnormative, I mean subjects who, save for their status as trans, are otherwise highly assimilable — gendernormative, heterosexual, middle-class, ...2017, Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin, Angela Willey, Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, University of Washington Press...
  • A transnormative person can “pass” in larger society as their preferred gender identity—and is able to do so because he or she so successfully embodies the norms of masculinity or femininity.2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 165:
  • Stylistic experimentation and mix is also central to transnormative practice in the 'biggest village on Earth'.2014, Ivan Gololobov, Hilary Pilkington, Yngvar B Steinholt, Punk in Russia: Cultural mutation from the “useless” to the “moronic”...

Forms of transnormative

comparativemore transnormative
superlativemost transnormative

Origin of transnormative

From trans- + normative.

Questions about transnormative

What does transnormative mean?
Transnormative means pertaining to, exhibiting, or consistent with transnormativity.
How do you use transnormative in a sentence?
In this metaphor, transnormative subjects “before the law” are likely to be those in the “but for” group, closest to the floor above.
What part of speech is transnormative?
Transnormative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce transnormative?
Transnormative is pronounced /tɹænzˈnɔː(ɹ).mə.tɪv/.

Words near transnormative in the dictionary

  1. transnitrosylation
  2. transnitrosylations
  3. transnormal
  4. transnormalization
  5. transnormalized
  6. transnormative
  7. transnormativities
  8. transnormativity
  9. transnumeral
  10. transnumeration
  11. transobturator

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