What is ‘Transplaining’?
Pippa Catterall a transgender woman and Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster helped us with this explanation of what transplaining means.
She told us,
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“Transitive verb with similar connotations to mansplain.
“It can be used to describe the ways in which some well-meaning trans people pontificate about their transition experiences and processes as if they are the only authentic or right ones.”
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