transmisogyny · noun — hatred of or contempt for trans women. It carries an Arena rating of 1255, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, transmisogyny ranks #621 of 17,171 for Scariest Words, #2,407 of 17,188 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #3,091 of 17,176 for Most Incisive Words, #3,372 of 17,195 for Most Exacting Words.
Why “transmisogyny” is a great word
Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against trans women, understood as the specific intersection of transphobia and misogyny. From the prefix trans- (denoting transgender) and misogyny (from Greek misos, "hatred," and gynē, "woman"), it was coined in 2006 by Julia Serano and popularized in her 2007 book Whipping Girl. Unlike "transphobia," which casts a wider net against transgender people in general, or "misogyny," which targets women but lacks the specific focus on trans embodiment, transmisogyny is the concentrated venom reserved for those who are both. It is the invasive glare in a public space, the legislative fixation on denying medical care, and the cold, bureaucratic violence of a misplaced record—a hatred that seeks to fracture identity at the seam where personhood and womanhood meet.
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Etymology
From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in 2006 and popularised in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).
noun
- Hatred of or contempt for trans women.
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