transvestigator

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of trans +‎ investigator.

Noun[edit]

transvestigator (plural transvestigators)

  1. (Internet slang) A person who routinely attempts to identify people they allege are transgender, especially one who runs a blog, YouTube channel, or social-media account dedicated to this activity.
    • 2019 November 7, Devastated 24/7 (@roo_tea), Twitter[1]:
      You gotta be kidding me. Transvestigators are wild. Here I am just tryna find some Anne Hathaway movies and I see this. [screenshot of a Google search in which the top "people also ask" result is "Was Anne Hathaway born a boy?"]
    • 2020 August 10, Ann Coates (@setoacnna), Twitter[2]:
      No you can't always tell. Of the trans women I've known who told me they were trans I certainly couldn't "tell" when I met them. And the transvestigators just suspect every cis woman.
    • 2022 April 19, Lylac Doll (@LylacDoll), Twitter[3]:
      I've known cisgender women who were kicked out of restrooms by transvestigators. It's the most poorly developed of all the Bigotry Sciences right behind phrenology.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:transvestigator.

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