transnormativity

Noun

transnormativity (countable and uncountable, plural transnormativities)

1. Normalization of the existence of diverse transgender people and experiences.
   • The online discourse engaged in and created by transmen at the same time constitutes, reflects, and responds to cultural representations of female-to-male transgenderedness. The transmen blogs reviewed here seem to reflect an emerging transnormativity – a desire to bring to light and integrate...2013, Karen Ross, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 335
   • Viewers should be offered a range of gender possibilities and not be reliant on subversive reads, gay “vague” qualities (see Hilton Morrow and Battles 2015), and connotative interpretations, or a select few TV series that feature inclusion and transnormativity.2017, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media, Lexington Books...
2. The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)
   • 2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)
   • Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex...2016, Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN