transvestigator
English
Etymology
Blend of trans + investigator.
Noun
transvestigator (plural transvestigators)
- (Internet slang, often derogatory) 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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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Related terms
- transvestigation