transnormativity

English

Etymology

From transnormative +‎ -ity or trans- +‎ normativity.

Noun

transnormativity (countable and uncountable, plural transnormativities)

1. Normalization of the existence of diverse transgender people and experiences.
   • 2006, Myfanwy McDonald, “An other space: between and beyond lesbian normativity and transnormativity”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 10 (1-2): 201-214:
   • 2013, Karen Ross, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 335:

     The online discourse engaged in and created by transmen at the same time constitutes, reflects, and responds to cultural representations of female-to-male transgenderedness. The transmen blogs reviewed here seem to reflect an emerging transnormativity – a desire to bring to light and integrate, into collective consciousness, the mundane aspects of transmen's lives – a discursive strategy that is reflected in expressions such as […]

   • 2017, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 228:

     Viewers should be offered a range of gender possibilities and not be reliant on subversive reads, gay “vague” qualities (see Hilton Morrow and Battles 2015), and connotative interpretations, or a select few TV series that feature inclusion and transnormativity.

2. The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)
   • 2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)
   • 2016, Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:

     Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex characteristics that socially identify them as the sex they were assigned at birth.

   • 2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 166:

     For Jenner and many other transpeople, transnormativity is away to escape the societal shame directed toward trans people—a way, at last, to fit in. The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address [transphobia].

Related terms

• transnormative

Translations

Translations

• French: transnormativité

See also

• cisnormativity
• homonormativity (see there for more)