“Fuel for the fire”: Trans rage as a motivating force against cisgenderism

Through an exploration of participants' experiences of trans rage, the research findings demonstrate its potential as a motivating force to challenge cisgenderism through activism, solidarity building, and community organizing. In a time where trans rights are being used as a key political wedge issue, we must better understand how we can harness the transformative power of trans rage in order to push back against anti-trans bigotry, and to begin dismantling the cisgenderist belief systems that support it. This paper concludes by calling for ongoing theorization of trans rage and its applications, and a call-to-action to expand these applications across a broad range of settings, beyond academia, in an intersectional manner building solidarity with cis people as they too would benefit from challenging cisgenderism.