transtrender

maryw commented on the word transtrender

Blanket dismissals of nonbinary genders are all too common. Nonbinary gender is deemed a playful fantasy, just another way for teens to get attention—as if it's suddenly cool to transgress gender. Moreover, adolescents are assumed to succumb to peer pressure, so it follow that genderqueer kids are seen as simply molding themselves after their friends. This belief is so common that there is a pejorative label for it: transtrender.

Micah Rajunov & Scott Duane, eds., Introduction, in <i>Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity</i> (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), p. xxiv.

May 31, 2020