Transfic

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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