transgendercideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

transgendercide (usually uncountable, 複数形 not attested)

1. (rare, nonce word) The killing of a transgender person or transgender people collectively because of their gender, especially when motivated by transphobia.

   Hyponym: transfemicide

   • 2015 March 11, Erick Chavarria, “Oakland Voices: Transgendercide of women of color drives young trans woman to take her own life”, in Daily Democrat‎^[1]:

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   • 2015 November 29, Jonathan Gilbert, “Transgender Argentines Confront Continued Murder and Discrimination”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-07:

     At the march, protesters held handmade signs denouncing the murder of Ms. Sacayán, 40, one of the most prominent transgender activists in Argentina. She led a group that fights discrimination against transgender people and was a regional representative of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. On the street, someone had stenciled graffiti that read, “Basta de travesticidios,” or “Enough transgendercide.”

   • 2021 October, Dodi T. B. Leal, “Gender in Danger: Transdanger People in Performing Arts in Brazil”, in Theatre Research International, volume 46, number 3, →DOI, pages 404–405:

     This article has exposed how the transdanger presence in the performing arts in Brazil is more than just a new aesthetic form, but a necessary political turn in favour of protecting transgender people from unbridled transgendercide.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transgendercide.

使用する際の注意点

• As a nonce word, this term does not have a well-established or agreed upon meaning and thus is occasionally recoined to denote what is much more commonly referred to as "transgender genocide" or "trans genocide".

Further reading

• Transgender genocide on Wikipedia.