transfeminicide

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A form of transfemicide — The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nountransfeminicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfeminicides)

plural transfeminicides

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of transfemicide.

    Saying cuir in Mexico today is to name thousands of murdered and disappeared victims of feminicides and transfeminicides.

    2019, Simone Pereira de Sá, “Cartographies of Brazlian popular and 'peripheral' music on YouTube”, in Fernando Resende, Mehita Iqani, editors, Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Current, unnumbered page
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    The great number of transfeminicides (assassinations of transgender people) and assassinations of homosexual people are truly alarming.

    2019, Ángel F. Méndez Montoya, “¡Sin maricones no hay revoluciones! (Without Queering, There's No Revolutioneering!): Mexico's Queer Subversions of Public Space and the Decolonization of Marriage Heteronormativity”, in Raimundo Barreto, Roberto Sirvent, editors, Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives, page 213

    In January 2021, Revista étnica reported that "2020 closed with a total of 60 direct and indirect femicides, of which 17 are considered intimate killings, 6 transfeminicides, and 26 cases that are being investigated or remain without information. […]

    2021, Rocío Zambrana, Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico, unnumbered page

Origin

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APA

transfeminicide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfeminicide

MLA

“transfeminicide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfeminicide. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transfeminicide,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transfeminicide.

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