tranarchist

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noun

A transgender anarchist; a transgender person who supports anarchist views.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nountranarchist (plural tranarchists)

plural tranarchists

  1. neologismA transgender anarchist; a transgender person who supports anarchist views.

    Some noted with bemused incuriosity that Tunney, an avowed anticapitalist “tranarchist” (transgender anarchist), was at one time a prominent and divisive fixture of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

    2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, unnumbered page
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    What follows is a distillation of hours of conversation with two of these women, Justine and Zoë, founding members of the "tranarchist" affinity group that has helped jump-start a movement that has swept the nation and the world.

    2011 November 9, Gina Quattrochi, “When the System Itself is the Problem”, in Gay City News, page 10

    As Justine Tunney (27), self-described "tranarchist" and founder of the main OWS website (occupywallst.org) phrased it, "I believe that the hetero-normative, cis-normative, patriarchal, state-capitalist establishment is evil and must be destroyed."

    2013, Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, unnumbered page

Origin

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APA

tranarchist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tranarchist

MLA

“tranarchist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tranarchist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tranarchist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tranarchist.

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