The story
From roach + -ification. Sense 2 was likely coined by artist Lacryboy in 2021 in a popular Twitter post featuring an illustration of a transformation sequence with the word as a caption.
First known use, by meaning
- from 2021 The act or process of a trans man transitioning, typically from a physically attractive feminine appearance to a conventionally unattractive masculine one.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.