trancestor

Blend of trans +‎ ancestor.

trancestor (plural trancestors)

1. (rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.
   • 2011, Susannah Cornwall, Controversies in Queer Theology, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd (→ISBN):

     page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a volume called The Queer Bible Commentary, then those seeking such figures will probably engage with it whether or not they consider transsexualism and transgender people to be socially queer phenomena.

     page 120: This reclaiming of queer ancestors/trancestors (see below) has proven important for Wilson and others, with its assertion that homosexual people have existed at all points and times in history.

   • 2014, Amy Scholder, Icon, The Feminist Press at CUNY (→ISBN):

     Fortunately, because I did get a kick out of him, he liked me and would come over and share stories about working with Jackie Curtis, who is a personal hero of mine, and show me pictures of my trancestors in their youthful glory, when their courage, outrageousness, and heavy drug usage paved the way [...]

   • 2018, Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Mystic Productions Press (→ISBN)

     Invoke your Trancestors of blood. Speak aloud, something like:

     "Oh sweet, well and loving ones of my blood,

     You who transcended the bounds of gender during your life,"