Dictionary

transmisogynistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans- + misogynistic.

Meanings

1. (neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.
   • But I am asking us to examine a comedic device that not only degrades women but also reinforces the absolutely incorrect and harmfully transmisogynistic idea that trans women are really just "men in dresses." 2014 November 4, Morgan Philley, “Dressing down the gender binary”, in The Daily Mississippian, volume 103, number 49, University of Mississippi, page 2:
   • As far as I'm concerned, Leelah's death wasn't suicide – it was murder at the hands of a transmisogynistic society. 2015, Casey Aldridge, "To the Charlotte Christian community after Chapel Hill", Niner Times (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 February 2015 - 23 February 2015, page 8
   • […] the same masculinity at the heart of the military’s pervasive homophobia, tolerance of sexual assault, and transmisogynistic practice of court-martialing transfeminine soldiers for “cross-dressing.” 2011, "An open letter to the organizers of TEDxMiddlebury", The Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont), Volume 110, Issue 8, 10 November 2011, page 11

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Synonyms

transmisogynist