English
transface
From trans + face (attested online since at least 2009), based on earlier blackface.
The story
From trans + face (attested online since at least 2009), based on earlier blackface.
Today it means
noun The practice of a cisgender person (especially one of the opposite gender) portraying a transgender person in media.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “transface”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / transface