Transface

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The practice of a cisgender person (especially one of the opposite gender) portraying a transgender person in media. uncountable

    "[…] the days of transface are numbered."

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"[…] the days of transface are numbered."

Etymology

From trans + face (attested online since at least 2009), based on earlier blackface.

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