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tranarchist en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of trans + anarchist. By surface analysis, tranarchy + -ist.

Meanings

1. (neologism) A transgender anarchist; a transgender person who supports anarchist views.
   • Some noted with bemused incuriosity that Tunney, an avowed anticapitalist “tranarchist” (transgender anarchist), was at one time a prominent and divisive fixture of the Occupy Wall Street movement. 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, unnumbered page:
   • As Justine Tunney (27), self-described "tranarchist" and founder of the main OWS website (occupywallst.org) phrased it, "I believe that the hetero-normative, cis-normative, patriarchal, state-capitalist establishment is evil and must be destroyed." 2013, Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, unnumbered page:
   • What follows is a distillation of hours of conversation with two of these women, Justine and Zoë, founding members of the "tranarchist" affinity group that has helped jump-start a movement that has swept the nation and the world. 2011 November 9, Gina Quattrochi, “When the System Itself is the Problem”, in Gay City News, page 10:

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