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transvestigation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /tɹænzˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ (General-American)
• /tɹænzˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [-ʃn̩] (Received-Pronunciation)
• [-ʃn̩] (General-American)
• /-tə-/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trans-bor. English trans- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus Old French gendrebor. Middle English gendre English gender English transgender Middle English investigacioun English investigation blend English transvestigation Blend of transgender + investigation.

Meanings

1. (Internet, qualifier:conspiracy theories) An informal investigation into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally conducted by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.
   • It didn't take long for users to point out that EmergentReality has no idea about the various shapes, sizes, and anatomical variations that both trans and cis women experience. "The Great Transvestigation strikes again, folks," Twitter user @indigowhiskey wrote. "It's been over 3 hours and I still don't know what an Adonis belt is." 2018 December 14, Ana Valens, “Dude gets dunked on for claiming Keira Knightley's 'six pack' makes her trans”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022:
   • The biggest transvestigation groups have a few thousand members – tiny by Facebook standards – and the biggest elite gender inversion Twitter account, Son of Man, has 25,000 followers. 2023 September 21, Hayden Vernon, “The Conspiracy Theory That All Celebrities Are Secretly Trans”, in Vice News, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2023:
   • Inanna Snow, the "Transvestigation Disclosure" admin who argued that Cavill is trans due to his feminine gaze, was dethroned from her own page in recent weeks when others accused her of being trans, on equally flimsy grounds. 2022 July 18, Miles Klee, “Unhinged 'Transvestigators' Think They're the Only Cis People Left.”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022:
   • The "transvestigation" conspiracy involves internet pundits using phrenology to "prove" that apparently cisgender celebrities are in fact trans, despite pretending otherwise 2024 February 8, Patrick Lenton, quoting Jay Daniel Thompson, “A Wild Investigation of Transvestigators, the People Who Think Celebs Are All Trans”, in Vice News, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024:
   • […] and "transvestigations" refers to attempts to expose celebrities (such as Madonna and Mike Tyson) as secretly transgender. [2021 May 25, John Ferrannini, “LGBTQ Agenda: GLAAD finds major social media sites 'unsafe' for LGBTQ users”, in Bay Area Reporter, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:
   • The conspiracies I think are really bad is the ones that come from elitism and say that one group is better than another, so that's what I think is really stupid. Another thing that gets me are transvestigations, conspiracies about people's gender, like Justin Bieber being a girl and Miley Cyrus being a guy. It's just so stupid. 2018 August 10, Mack Lamoureux, quoting Cami Knodel, “We Asked Flat Earthers What The Dumbest Conspiracy Is”, in Vice News, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022:

Forms

Relateds

manface · transvestigator · transvestigating · invert · womanface · transvestigate · inverted

Translations (1)

fr transvestigation (informal investigation into a public figure's gender identity)