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transmisandry en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans- + misandry, modeled on the earlier transmisogyny.

Meanings

  1. (neologism, uncountable) Hatred of or contempt for trans men.
    • Also, I probably shouldn't ask, and will thus look into it myself, but apparently "transmisogyny" is a thing, separate from transphobia... I guess it's easy to imagine that perhaps transwomen have all the problems of transmen, plus having to conform to beauty standards and all that. I guess? Or is it simply that they have distinct problems (in 99% of sports, no one is going to say a transman has an unfair advantage), so transmen's problems fall under... transmisandry? 2009 August 22, lullabee_lj, “Health care reform!”, in LiveJournal, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025:
    • Transmisogyny and transmisandry are asymmetrical types of violence. Any claim of transmisandry which is used to vilify trans women and other assigned male at birth trans people should be heavily interrogated if not simply dismissed outright. 2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 277:
    • The other thing I want to say isn’t about race/ethnicity, but I did want to say it. I know that transmisandry happens. But I think that to treat transmisogyny and transmisandry as equal problems is as broken as treating sexism and “reverse sexism” as equal problems. 2010 December 7, Cary Gabriel Costello [Intersexroadshow], comment on Matt Kailey, 2010 December 6, “Ask Matt Monday: Antagonism in the White Trans Community?”, in Tranifesto, archived from the original on 19 December 2010
    • A Black trans-of-color critique shows that we need theories not only for thinking about how trans women of color navigate but also for racialized transmisandry, to explain the ways in which Black trans masculine persons live in a sphere of literal and discursive policing […] 2017, E. C. Krell, “Is transmisogyny killing trans women of color? Black trans feminisms and the exigencies of white femininity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly:

Coordinates

transmisogyny

Synonyms

anti-transmasculinity · transandrophobia

Translations (4)

pt transmisandria (hatred of transgender men) · es transmisandria (hatred of transgender men) · pl transmizoandria (hatred of transgender men) · fr transmisandrie (hatred of transgender men)