transgenderism

transgender +‎ -ism

transgenderism (usually uncountable, plural transgenderisms)

1. The state of being transgender. (See usage notes)

   the International Journal of Transgenderism

   • 1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender Nation, page 37:

     Instead of searching for physiological causes of transgenderism, the early psychoanalysts proposed possible psychological origins for cross-dressing and transgenderism.

   • 2012, Richard D. McAnulty, Sex in College: The Things They Don't Write Home About, page 169:

     We will briefly discuss the interaction of gender orientation and sexuality, including transgenderism.

   • 2013, Simona Giordano, Children with Gender Identity Disorder, page 9:

     In this wider sense, transgenderism is on a continuum line with the condition of anyone who may seek to live a life that is authentic to themselves as individuals.

2. (derogatory) A purported ideology behind transgender identities, trans activism and trans rights movements; transness, viewed as an ideology. (Compare homosexual agenda.)

   Coordinate terms: homosexualism, gayism

   • 2012 May 29, Sheila Jeffreys, The Guardian‎:

     Let us be free to debate transgenderism without being accused of 'hate speech'.

   • 2014 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “What is a Woman?”, in The New Yorker‎:

     The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism.

   • 2023 March 4, Peter Wade, quoting Michael Knowles, “CPAC Speaker Calls for Transgender People to Be ‘Eradicated’”, in Rolling Stone‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

     “If transgenderism is true, if men really can become women, then it’s true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false ... it’s false for everybody too. And if it’s false, then ... for the good of society — and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion — then transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”

• The term is common in science and social science literature, but is little used by the transgender community and considered offensive by some. GLAAD says the term is primarily used by anti-transgender activists, and recommends synonyms like "being transgender".[1] Julia Serano agrees that it has been appropriated by transphobic authors in recent years and used as though it referred to an ideology (compare e.g. liberalism or conservatism) rather than a state of being; she does not consider it offensive per se but notes that it has started to be objected to.[2]

• transgenderness

• transsexuality
• berdachism

• Oxford Dictionaries,