transactivism

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English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ activism.

Noun

A demonstrator engaging in transactivism.

transactivism (uncountable)

  1. Activism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.
    • 1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 14:
      In addition, some early readers have come away with the conviction that in-your-face picketing-style transactivism originated with the Menace.
    • 2003, anonymous, quoted in Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, page 232:
      In retrospect, there’s no doubt this was a turning point for transactivism. It was the first really visible national demonstration we ever pulled off.
    • 2005, Kate O'Riordan, “Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation”, in Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers, editors, Global Activism, Global Media, page 186:
      This is a human rights orientated organisation and it carves out completely different discursive space when compared to US transactivism.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transactivism.

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