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travesticides

travesticides is the plural 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

Questions about travesticides

What is travesticides the plural of?
Travesticides is the plural of travesticide.

Words near travesticides in the dictionary

  1. traves
  2. travest
  3. travested
  4. travesti
  5. travesticide
  6. travesticides
  7. travestied
  8. travestier
  9. travestiers
  10. travesties
  11. travestiment

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