transnormative

English

Etymology

trans- +‎ normative

Adjective

transnormative (comparative more transnormative, superlative most transnormative)

1. Pertaining to, exhibiting, or consistent with transnormativity.
   • 2017, Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     In this metaphor, transnormative subjects “before the law” are likely to be those in the “but for” group, closest to the floor above. A transnormative approach seeks inclusion in existing political and social arrangements, and, like its cognate, “homonormative,” describes a politics in which “'equality' becomes narrow, formal access to a few conservatizing institutions” (Duggan 2003, 65). Aren Z. Aizura describes “transnormative” as an imperative to fade “into the population ...”

   • 2017, Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin, Angela Willey, Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 162:

     While Spade excoriates the medical establishment as a regulatory system deeply invested in stereotypical binary gender, he also complicates transnormative narratives of transition that are invested in the reification of hegemonic medical constructions of transition as a linear, teleological path (from male to female, or female to male). By transnormative, I mean subjects who, save for their status as trans, are otherwise highly assimilable — gendernormative, heterosexual, middle-class, ...

   • 2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, 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 […]

2. Crossing norms.
   • 2014, Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld, Evolutionary Governance Theory: Theory and Applications, Springer, →ISBN:

     7.3 The Function and Form of Transnormative Law
     Recapitulating ongoing debates, five distinct but overlapping characteristics of this kind of transnormative law can be observed: Intercontextualty: Nation-state law [...]
     […]
     Despite the entangled character and coevolutionary structure of national and transnormative law, the relationship is potentially ...

   • 2014, Ivan Gololobov, Hilary Pilkington, Yngvar B Steinholt, Punk in Russia: Cultural mutation from the “useless” to the “moronic”, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Stylistic experimentation and mix is also central to transnormative practice in the 'biggest village on Earth'. Thus the lyrics of bands often fuse Western hardcore and local folk motifs and musicians are comfortable playing simultaneously in various stylistically different bands (e.g. in a radical, politically engaged hardcore and an indie-rock dance club formation, in an emo-punk crossover and in electronic dance music, psychobilly and grindcore ensembles).

Related terms

• (pertaining to transnormativity): transnormativity
• (crossing norms): transnational

Translations

Translations

• French: transnormatif

See also

• binormative
• cisnormative
• homonormativity (see there for more)