trans cult

noun

The transgender community, viewed as cultlike.

Meanings

nountrans cult (plural trans cults)

plural trans cults · alternative transcult

  1. derogatoryoffensiveThe transgender community, viewed as cultlike.

    The rage and despair of seeing your flesh and blood drift into the trans cult and turn against you is unspeakable.

    2018, "GenderCriticalDad", "'I'm Not A Hideously Bigoted Parent Who Doesn't 'Get' It'", in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (eds. Heather Brunskell-Evans & Michele Moore), page 82
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    Clichéd insults await the wrongthinkers: deny TW and you’re a bigoted transphobe; assert it and you’re a deluded member of the transcult.

    2020, Alex Byrne, “Are women adult human females?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 177, page 3798

    There is seemingly a widely held concern that trans men are simply naive and manipulated gender non-conforming lesbians who have been led astray by the so-called trans cult or trans cabal.

    2021, Finn Mackay, Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, unnumbered page
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