What does Transmisogyny mean?
Transmisogyny, first coined in Julia Serano’s 2007 book Whipping Girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity, is a unique form of oppression formed by the intersection of oppositional sexism and traditional sexism. Oppositional sexism is the belief that there are only two genders—male and female—which are rigid, mutually exclusive, and “opposite” categories with no overlap between them whatsoever. Traditional sexism, also called misogyny, is the presumption that women and femininity are innately inferior to, and exist primarily for the benefit of, men and masculinity. Transmisogyny is not simply when these two forms of sexism occur simultaneously; it is its own form of sexism that is greater than the sum of its parts.
While all transgender people are targeted by oppositional sexism for contradicting the notion that gender is binary and unchangeable, people on the transfeminine spectrum—that is, people who were coercively assigned male at birth (CAMAB) and whose genders lean towards femininity and/or womanhood—violate the tenets of both oppositional and traditional sexism. Transmisogyny is a punishment, not just for changing the gender we were assigned at birth, but specifically for rejecting the masculinity forced upon us and willingly embracing femininity.
Transmisogyny results in those on the transfeminine spectrum being the primary and disporportionate targets of anti-transgender legislation, sexualization, pathologization, dehumanization, ridicule, discrimination, and violence. In the United States, transgender women are the lowest-paid LGBTQ+ workers, earning only 60% of the national average worker’s wages. This economic precarity frequently pushes trans women into housing insecurity, and many are forced to turn to sex work to make ends meet. Nearly 90% of victims of fatal anti-trans violence are transgender women—the overwhelming majority of them being Black trans women and/or sex workers.
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