Citations:trans

verb: to cross (from one side to another of)

 * 2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights (ISBN 0816643121), page 3, quoting Virginia Prince:
 * "There had to be some name for people like myself who trans the gender barrier — meaning somebody who lives full time in the gender opposite to their anatomy. I have not transed the sex barrier."
 * 2012, Trystan Cotten, Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition (ISBN 113666744X):
 * [...] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.
 * Significantly, Snorton's (re)reading of Autobiography transes the text's normative gender identity formation, which has been taken for granted in previous criticism, denaturalizing its origins and stability, to reveal its psychosexual fragilities as shaped by the projects of African American modernism.
 * 2012, Finn Enke, Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies (ISBN 143990748X), pages 4, 5, and 20:
 * Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[. ...]
 * This tri-fold awareness is the foundation of trans alliances that ideally cut across nuanced identity labels to make life more livable for people who trans gender, particularly those who are most vulnerable [...]
 * People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.
 * 2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (ISBN 1317675444), page 43:
 * [A]s I have argued elsewhere, the very idea of transing 'gender' essentializes it by reinforcing the need for femininity and masculinity (Jeffreys, 1996).
 * People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.
 * 2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (ISBN 1317675444), page 43:
 * [A]s I have argued elsewhere, the very idea of transing 'gender' essentializes it by reinforcing the need for femininity and masculinity (Jeffreys, 1996).

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 * 2018, Jack Halberstam, Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Univ. of California Press, ISBN 9780520292697), page 20:
 * Returning to LaMonda Horton Stallings's book Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures, Stallings uses the term “trans” as a verb and, building on Susan Stryker's idea of “transing,” claims: “I trans black literary studies and sexuality studies to demonstrate how black communities' deployment of funk provides alternative knowledge about imagination and sexuality.”

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