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English
Etymology
Blend of transgender + trender or transgender + trend.
Noun
transtrender (plural transtrenders)
- (slang, derogatory) A person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.
- Antonym: trutrans
- Hypernym: genderspecial
2015 March 23, Mark Gevisser, “Engendered”, in The Nation:Many of the genderqueer kids in today’s liberal America are what Charlotte Wolf calls “transtrenders,” using gender as a form of social provocation or subcultural bonding.
- 2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 92:
- Threads on the social media giant Reddit occasionally discuss or condemn "transtrenders"
2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 79:These latter trans people are often accused of being "fakers." They are "transtrenders." Their trans identity is the result of social contagion, not Gender Dysphoria™.
- 2014, National Women's Studies Association 2014 conference program, page 198:
- However, these conversations often reproduce hegemonic conceptions of masculinity, perpetuating white supremacy, heterosexism, and the idea of a "transtrender" fad.
- 2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 33:
- In fact, it would do a great disservice to the participants of these communities and social spaces to portray them all as teenagers, because it would contribute to the erasure of people who have been non-binary before the internet and potentially legitimize the "transtrender" panic,
- 2019, Jessica Rae Fisher, "Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century", thesis submitted to Kennesaw State University (May 2019), page 64:
- Whereas there is no transtrender subreddit, r/transmed and r/truscum both exist. Those who advocate for a strict interpretation of the dominant medical narrative feel comfortable to self- identify with monikers that identify them as such, whereas those who either do or are accused of flouting those medical narratives do not.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transtrender.
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