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transvesticide

transvesticide is the alternative form of travesticide.

Meaning of travesticide

Noun

travesticide (plural travesticides)

  1. (Latin-America) The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
    • In 2018 the figure of "travesticide" (term developed by Radi and Sardá-Chandiramani 2016) was applied for the first time in Argentina during the trial for the murder of travesti activist Diana Sacayán.2020, Moira Fradinger, Blas Radi, Moira Pérez, “Argentina, Chile, And Uruguay”, in Chuck Stewart, editor, Gender and Identity Around the World, page 197

Forms of transvesticide

pluraltransvesticides

Origin of transvesticide

From transvest(ite) + -icide.

Questions about transvesticide

What is transvesticide the alternative form of?
Transvesticide is the alternative form of travesticide.

Words near transvesticide in the dictionary

  1. transvested
  2. transvestic
  3. transvestic disorder
  4. transvestic fetishism
  5. transvestic fetishisms
  6. transvesticide
  7. transvesticides
  8. transvesticism
  9. transvestigate
  10. transvestigated
  11. transvestigates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transvesticide (page history and authors); travesticide (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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