transwomanhood
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Noun edit
transwomanhood (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being a trans woman.
- 2019, Jamie A. Thomas, Christina Jackson, Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, page 66:
- This phobia combines with society's ignorance about it, in a way that fuels and ignites the strength that participates in shaping transwomanhood.
- 2016, Eric R. Wright, Neal Carnes, Understanding the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States, page 106:
- So because I learned that sex work is shameful, and I correlated transwomanhood and sex work, I was taught that transwomanhood is shameful.
- 2020, Susanna Paasonen, Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, Objectification: On the Difference between Sex and Sexism:
- Tangerine offers a version of transwomanhood which demonstrates the subversive power of Riviere's “masquerade” (discussed in Chapter 2; also Butler, 2002).
Usage notes edit
- See notes at trans woman explaining why some language users prefer trans woman over transwoman. However, the term transwomanhood is never used in a derogatory way; see the academic citations above.