Transfic
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans. countable, slang
"Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world."
- 2 Such fan fiction collectively. slang, uncountable
"Transfic is a relatively new genre: the first known story to use the transfic label was Changes, a Star Wars fan fiction published online by Jane Sehrn-Ta in 2004."
Example
More examples"Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world."
Etymology
From trans (“transgender”) + fic.
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