transmisogyny
/tɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/noun
transmisogyny is a noun meaning “Hatred of or contempt for trans women” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does transmisogyny mean?
noun
- 1
Hatred of or contempt for trans women.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce transmisogyny?
- UK /tɹænz.mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
- US /tɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Transmisogyny has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-transmisogyny.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of transmisogyny
- trans-misogyny
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is transmisogyny?
Transmisogyny appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Transmisogyny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hatred of transgender women:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | transmisogynie |
| German | Transmisogynie |
| Portuguese | transmisoginia |
| Spanish | transmisoginia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does transmisogyny come from?
From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in 2006 and popularised in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).