transfic

English

Alternative forms

• trans fic

Etymology

trans (“transgender”) +‎ fic

Noun

transfic (countable and uncountable, plural transfics)

1. (fandom slang, countable) A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans.
   • 2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 56:

     Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.

   • 2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer In His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, And Fandom's Discontents", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 126:

     In this chapter, I’ve proposed three broad sub-genres to the genderbending genre – trans fics, transformation fics, and cisgender fics – in addition to questioning some of the key assumptions built into the very lexicon that dominates the genre.

   • 2018, Jonathan A. Rose, “'Sherlock Is Actually A Girl's Name': Challenging Gender Normativity Through Sherlock Fanfiction”, in Genre En Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, number 7, page 116:

     In other words, trans characters in Sherlock transfics tend to portray non-normative but unchanged genders in that the characters continue to be read (and identify) as their canonical gender (or something close to it).

2. (fandom slang, uncountable) Such fan fiction collectively.
   • 2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 55:

     Transfic is a relatively new genre: the first known story to use the transfic label was Changes, a Star Wars fan fiction published online by Jane Sehrn-Ta in 2004.

   • 2018, Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction, unnumbered page:

     Examples of transfic include such popular cultural fixtures as Marvel's Avengers and Peter Parker/Spider-Man envisioned as transgender characters.

   • 2018, Jonathan A. Rose, “'Sherlock Is Actually A Girl's Name': Challenging Gender Normativity Through Sherlock Fanfiction”, in Genre En Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, number 7, page 116:

     Most Sherlock transfic is not genderswap in the sense that characters do not change their canonical gender. For instance, canonically male Sherlock Holmes is portrayed much more frequently as (trans)male, i.e. a female-to-male trans person, than as a male-to-female trans person.

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