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transfemicide en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌtɹænsˈfɛ.mɪ.saɪd/

Etymology

From trans- + femicide.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.
    • In recent years, contemporary protest movements such as NiUnaMenos (NotOne[Woman]Less) have drawn attention to the country's rising number of femicides, a category that in Argentina includes transvesticides and transfemicides. 2019, C. J. W.-L. Wee, “Contemporary theatre, the contemporary, and historicity”, in Helena Grehan, Peter Eckersall, editors, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, unnumbered page:
    • At the same time, it enables higher levels of sexist violence in society, with its wake of femicides, transvesticides, transfemicides and other hate crimes. 2020, Celeste Fierro, Feminism in Debate, Reform or Revolution?, unnumbered page:
    • When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides. 2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, page 145:

Forms

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transfeminicide alternative lexicographic
transfemicides Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

transgendercide · femicide

Translations (6)

ka ტრანსფემიციდი (Translations) · es transfeminicidio (Translations) · es transfemicidio (Translations) · pt transfeminicídio (Translations) · pt transfemicídio (Translations) · fr transféminicide (Translations)