transmisogynistic

English

Etymology

trans- + misogynistic

Adjective

transmisogynistic (comparative more transmisogynistic, superlative most transmisogynistic)

  1. (LGBT, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.
    • 2011, "An open letter to the organizers of TEDxMiddlebury", The Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont), Volume 110, Issue 8, 10 November 2011, page 11:
      [] the same masculinity at the heart of the military’s pervasive homophobia, tolerance of sexual assault, and transmisogynistic practice of court-martialing transfeminine soldiers for “cross-dressing.”
    • 2014, Morgan Philley, "Dressing down the gender binary", The Daily Mississippian (University of Mississippi), Volume 103, Number 49, 4 November 2014, page 2:
      But I am asking us to examine a comedic device that not only degrades women but also reinforces the absolutely incorrect and harmfully transmisogynistic idea that trans women are really just "men in dresses."
    • 2015, Casey Aldridge, "To the Charlotte Christian community after Chapel Hill", Niner Times (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 February 2015 - 23 February 2015, page 8:
      As far as I'm concerned, Leelah's death wasn't suicide – it was murder at the hands of a transmisogynistic society.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:transmisogynistic.

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