transactivism

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ activism.

Noun

A demonstrator engaging in transactivism.

transactivism (uncountable)

1. Activism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.
   • 1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 14:

     In addition, some early readers have come away with the conviction that in-your-face picketing-style transactivism originated with the Menace.

   • 2003, anonymous, quoted in Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, page 232:

     In retrospect, there’s no doubt this was a turning point for transactivism. It was the first really visible national demonstration we ever pulled off.

   • 2005, Kate O'Riordan, “Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation”, in Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers, editors, Global Activism, Global Media, page 186:

     This is a human rights orientated organisation and it carves out completely different discursive space when compared to US transactivism.

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

Related terms

• transactivist

Translations

Translations

• French: transactivisme (fr) m

Further reading

• Trans rights movement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia