Trancestor
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general. rare
"page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a volume called The Queer Bible Commentary, then those seeking such figures will probably engage with it whether or not they consider transsexualism and transgender people to be socially queer phenomena. page 120: This reclaiming of queer ancestors/trancestors (see below) has proven important for Wilson and others, with its assertion that homosexual people have existed at all points and times in history."
Example
More examples"page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a volume called The Queer Bible Commentary, then those seeking such figures will probably engage with it whether or not they consider transsexualism and transgender people to be socially queer phenomena. page 120: This reclaiming of queer ancestors/trancestors (see below) has proven important for Wilson and others, with its assertion that homosexual people have existed at all points and times in history."
Etymology
Blend of trans + ancestor.
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