transvestigate

Blend of transgender +‎ investigate.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/, /-tə-/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Hyphenation: trans‧ves‧ti‧gate

transvestigate (third-person singular simple present transvestigates, present participle transvestigating, simple past and past participle transvestigated)

1. (Internet slang) To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure. [from mid-2010s]

   The poster has transvestigated this celebrity because of her defined jawline.

   • 2024 August 14, Quispe López, “How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream”, in Them‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 August 2024:

     Who are transvestigators, and what does it mean to transvestigate?

• “Online Anti-LGBTQ Hate Terms Defined: “Transvestigation””, in GLAAD, launched 2022

• Transvestigation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia