Transnormativity

Quick meaning: Transnormativity is a noun meaning Normalization of the existence of diverse transgender people and experiences.

Meaning

Normalization of the existence of diverse transgender people and experiences.

More Meanings

1. The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)

Example Sentences

2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)

For Jenner and many other transpeople, transnormativity is away to escape the societal shame directed toward trans people—a way, at last, to fit in. The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address [transphobia].

Viewers should be offered a range of gender possibilities and not be reliant on subversive reads, gay “vague” qualities (see Hilton Morrow and Battles 2015), and connotative interpretations, or a select few TV series that feature inclusion and transnormativity.

Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex characteristics that socially identify them as the sex they were assigned at birth.

Word Forms

• transnormativities

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transsexualization, transgenderisation, transgenderization, transpopulation, heteronormalization, transidentity.

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