trans cult

English

Alternative forms

• transcult

Noun

trans cult (plural trans cults)

1. (gender-critical, derogatory) The transgender community, viewed as cultlike.
   • 2018, "GenderCriticalDad", "'I'm Not A Hideously Bigoted Parent Who Doesn't 'Get' It'", in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (eds. Heather Brunskell-Evans & Michele Moore), page 82:

     The rage and despair of seeing your flesh and blood drift into the trans cult and turn against you is unspeakable.

   • 2020, Alex Byrne, “Are women adult human females?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 177, page 3798:

     Clichéd insults await the wrongthinkers: deny TW and you’re a bigoted transphobe; assert it and you’re a deluded member of the transcult.

   • 2021, Finn Mackay, Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, unnumbered page:

     There is seemingly a widely held concern that trans men are simply naive and manipulated gender non-conforming lesbians who have been led astray by the so-called trans cult or trans cabal.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:trans cult.