transmisogyny
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).
Noun
[edit]transmisogyny (uncountable)
- (LGBTQ, neologism) Hatred of or contempt for trans women.
- Coordinate term: transmisandry
- 2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, Edinburgh University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 146:
- The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'
- 2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199:
- I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.
- 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution[1], Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
- As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).
- 2017, Elizabeth Whalley, Colleen Hackett, “Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms”, in Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, volume 20, number 4, pages 456–473:
- The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]
- 2020, G. L. E. Easterbrook-Smith, “'Not on the Street Where We Live': walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation”, in Feminist Media Studies:
- Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …
Usage notes
[edit]- It is not necessary for the subject of transmisogyny to be a transfeminine person. People impacted by transmisogyny are described as "transmisogyny-affected" (TMA) while everyone else is labeled "transmisogyny-exempt" (TME).
- Transmisogyny is a distinct concept from both misogyny and transphobia. Typically it involves scrutinizing subjects for behavior deemed too close in association with maleness, as well as their performance of femininity, in ways that cis women would not be subjected to.
- Ex: The way trans women dress is scrutinized regardless of presentation. Trans women who dress like tomboys or too masculinely are accused of being fake or insincerely trans. Trans women who dress hyperfemininely are accused of reinforcing misogynistic stereotypes.
- Transmisogyny can also be applied at the systemic level to describe societal marginalization of transfeminine people, e.g. trans women suffering from violent crimes at a higher rate than cis women or other trans people.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]hatred of transgender women
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