Citations:transnormativity


 * 2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin (ISBN 9780399576867), page 165:
 * Transnormativity can be loosely defined as the notion that a "successful" trans person is a person who does not appear to be trans. A transnormative person can “pass” in larger society as their preferred gender identity—and is able to do  so because he or she so successfully embodies the norms of masculinity or  femininity. Yet embodying those norms requires capital—both cultural and  monetary. As a result, the “most” transnormative individuals are generally those who are white, able-bodied, and upper-middle-class
 * 2017, Caren J. Town, LGBTQ Young Adult Fiction: A Critical Survey, 1970s–2010s (McFarland, ISBN 9781476628950), page 109:
 * Narratives of transsexuality in the 1950s, she argues, created a story of “transnormativity” that “invoked gender normative tropes largely to make sense of lived experiences that prior to the circulation of such stories remained mostly unintelligible.” Although they reified gender norms (Male-to-Female, or MTF transsexuals, for example, adopted extremely feminine visual identities), they also offered, Drabiniski argues, “a radical critique of the normative assumption that gendered realities ...”
 * 2017, Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, L. Pauline Rankin, We Still Demand!: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles, UBC Press (ISBN 9780774833370), page 120:
 * During the 1980s, there were three significant ways in which Raj and his Metamorphosis community pursued this regendered transnormativity through a binary discourse of sexuality. Initially, Metamorphosis defined transsexual men as heterosexual rather than as lesbian. When that became problematic, Raj and Metamorphosis began recognizing that transsexual men could also be gay men. Finally, Raj argued that transnormative trans people, like homonormative gays and lesbians, ...
 * 2018, Andre Cavalcante, Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life (NYU Press, ISBN 9781479881307), page 65:
 * Many participants expressed concern that a specific kind of “transnormative” subjectivity, one with particular race, class, gender, age, and embodiment norms, was becoming a representational convention. The question of transnormativity worried Remi: “They [media professionals] consciously reject transwomen who don't fit traditionally feminine stereotypes. So, you don't see butch transwomen, tomboyish transwomen. You don't see many 20-year-old transwomen.