transactivism

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noun

Activism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.

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Meanings

nountransactivism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableActivism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.

    This is a human rights orientated organisation and it carves out completely different discursive space when compared to US transactivism.

    2005, Kate O'Riordan, “Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation”, in Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers, editors, Global Activism, Global Media, page 186
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    In addition, some early readers have come away with the conviction that in-your-face picketing-style transactivism originated with the Menace.

    1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 14

    In retrospect, there’s no doubt this was a turning point for transactivism. It was the first really visible national demonstration we ever pulled off.

    2003, anonymous, quoted in Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, page 232

Origin

From trans- + activism.

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Translations

French transactivisme
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