English Explanatory Dictionary

travesticide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.

Word forms

travesticide travesticides transvesticide

Etymology

From Spanish travesti (“trans woman, cross-dresser”) + -cide.

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