peak trans

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Etymology

From peak + trans. Emerged from the use of peak as an adjective meaning "at the greatest extent" or "maximum" (compare peak oil). The phrase peak trans is first attested online in this sense in 2014 and in print in 2016.

Verb

peak trans (third-person singular simple present peak transes, present participle peak transing, simple past and past participle peak transed)

  1. (gender-critical slang) To cause one to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views.
    Synonym: peak
    • 2017 December 22, Lizbeth Sophia (@XXnowalways), Twitter:
      Mumsnet peak transed me
    • 2018 December 21, Prism (@ialika_lifina), Twitter:
      TERFs are obsessed with 'peak transing' cis people the same way MRAs are obsessed with 'red pilling' men.
    • 2019 June 25, Autumnsdance (@Autumnsdance), Twitter:
      Just peak transed my whole table at a domestic abuse training event.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peak trans.

Noun

peak trans (uncountable)

  1. (gender-critical slang) The moment when a person feels motivated to adopt gender-critical or anti-transgender views.
    • 2018, "GenderCriticalDad", "'I'm Not A Hideously Bigoted Parent Who Doesn't 'Get' It'", in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (eds. Heather Brunskell-Evans & Michele Moore), page 81:
      Please god let her peak trans be as painless as possible.
    • 2020 December 8, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Secret Internet of TERFs”, in The Atlantic:
      In a practice carried over from Reddit, members are encouraged to share their conversion stories, which they confusingly call their “peak trans” moments.
    • 2021, Katie Roche, 2+2=5: How The Transgender Craze is Redefining Reality, page 2:
      Gender critical feminists often talk about hitting 'peak trans'- the moment when you realize the truth about transgenderism. Here's my peak trans story.

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