transmisogynistic

English

Alternative forms

• trans-misogynistic

Etymology

From trans- +‎ misogynistic.

Adjective

transmisogynistic (comparative more transmisogynistic, superlative most transmisogynistic)

1. (LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.
   • 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:

     […] 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.”

   • 2014 November 4, Morgan Philley, “Dressing down the gender binary”, in The Daily Mississippian, volume 103, number 49, University of Mississippi, page 2:

     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."

   • 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:

     As far as I'm concerned, Leelah's death wasn't suicide – it was murder at the hands of a transmisogynistic society.

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

Synonyms

• transmisogynist