Meaning of transnormativity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Normalization of the existence of diverse transgender people and experiences.
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2. The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)
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Examples

“The online discourse engaged in and created by transmen at the same time constitutes, reflects, and responds to cultural representations of female-to-male transgenderedness. The transmen blogs reviewed here seem to reflect an emerging transnormativity – a desire to bring to light and integrate, into collective consciousness, the mundane aspects of transmen's lives – a discursive strategy that is reflected in expressions such as […]”

“Viewers should be offered a range of gender possibilities and not be reliant on subversive reads, gay “vague” qualities (see Hilton Morrow and Battles 2015), and connotative interpretations, or a select few TV series that feature inclusion and transnormativity.”

“2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)”

“Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex characteristics that socially identify them as the sex they were assigned at birth.”

“For Jenner and many other transpeople, transnormativity is away to escape the societal shame directed toward trans people—a way, at last, to fit in. The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address [transphobia].”

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