transtrender

plural transtrenders

1. derogatoryslangA person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.

   Threads on the social media giant Reddit occasionally discuss or condemn "transtrenders" […]

   2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 92

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   These young pre-ftMs and ftMs give each other that support, through friending, subscribing to and copiously supportive commenting on each trans trender’s video. The comments alone encourage and increase trans trending behavior, affirmative comments read on their videos and positive reinforcing comments trans trenders read on other trans videos.

   2010 November 25, dirtywhiteboi, “Are Trans Trenders The New Goth?”, in The Magazine Project, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2010

   Many of the genderqueer kids in today’s liberal America are what Charlotte Wolf calls “transtrenders,” using gender as a form of social provocation or subcultural bonding.

   2015 March 23, Mark Gevisser, “Engendered”, in The Nation

   These latter trans people are often accused of being "fakers." They are "transtrenders." Their trans identity is the result of social contagion, not Gender Dysphoria™.

   2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 79

   However, these conversations often reproduce hegemonic conceptions of masculinity, perpetuating white supremacy, heterosexism, and the idea of a "transtrender" fad.

   2014, National Women's Studies Association 2014 conference program, page 198

   In fact, it would do a great disservice to the participants of these communities and social spaces to portray them all as teenagers, because it would contribute to the erasure of people who have been non-binary before the internet and potentially legitimize the "transtrender" panic, […]

   2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 33

   Antonyms: trutrans