Transploitation

Quick meaning: Transploitation is a noun meaning The exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).

Meaning

The exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).

Example Sentences

[…] and finally climaxing in a buckets-of-gore showdown in a suburban kitchen where a sexy bad guy is killed 42 ways to Sunday, this cheesy, way beyond camp "transploitation" snuff film has a truckload of chills and giggles.

In the same way that the transploitation film Ticked Off Trannies with Knives was so named in order to take ownership of a term that can be used derisively, couldn’t we all agree that “she-mail” was meant in good fun and leave it at that?

Created by photographer Austin Young and Saskia Wilson-Brown, the series was first screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and last week’s follow-up sought to probe the “transploitation” genre (as the creators have coined it) further, with short films and music videos by and about their favorite gender-blender superstars.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transsexualization, transpopulation, transface, trannydom, trannyism, transsex.

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