Transmisogyny
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Hatred of or contempt for trans women. neologism, uncountable
"The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'"
Example
More examples"The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'"
Etymology
From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in 2006 and popularised in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).
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