English Explanatory Dictionary

transgendercide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The killing of a transgender person or transgender people collectively because of their gender, especially when motivated by transphobia.

Word forms

transgendercide

Etymology

From transgender + -cide, by analogy with genocide, homicide, femicide, etc. In some uses, a calque of Spanish travesticidio (“travesticide”).

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