transploitation

English

Etymology

From trans +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

transploitation (uncountable)

1. The exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).
   • 2009 December 9, Lina Lecaro, “Drag-Hagging With The Best Of 'Em”, in LA Weekly:

     Created by photographer Austin Young and Saskia Wilson-Brown, the series was first screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and last week’s follow-up sought to probe the “transploitation” genre (as the creators have coined it) further, with short films and music videos by and about their favorite gender-blender superstars.

   • 2010 July 8, David Lambe, “Queer eye for the gore fest”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 40, number 27, page 22:

     […] and finally climaxing in a buckets-of-gore showdown in a suburban kitchen where a sexy bad guy is killed 42 ways to Sunday, this cheesy, way beyond camp "transploitation" snuff film has a truckload of chills and giggles.

   • 2014 April 18, Anna Waugh, “'Drag Race' promises to drop 'transphobic' gags”, in Dallas Voice, volume 30, number 49, page 4:

     In the same way that the transploitation film Ticked Off Trannies with Knives was so named in order to take ownership of a term that can be used derisively, couldn’t we all agree that “she-mail” was meant in good fun and leave it at that?