transvestigation

They have convinced themselves that trans women are men who disguise themselves to molest women (see: that JK Rowling book with that as the entire premise), so they believe their transvestigation is catching sexual predators.

Transvestigation is wild to me. Some of these peeps are just absolutely convinced there are more trans people than there really are, and, honestly, if there were that many? You'd think there would be better protections for trans people, right? Justthisdudeyaknow 2025

“The ‘transvestigation’ conspiracy involves internet pundits using phrenology to ‘prove’ that apparently cisgender celebrities are in fact trans, despite pretending otherwise,” says Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication at RMIT University, who is currently writing a book about the ethics of reporting on online conspiracy theories.

A Wild Investigation of Transvestigators, the People Who Think Celebs Are All Trans Patrick Lenton 2024

Answer: Transvestigation refers to people looking very closely at images of cisgender people, typically cisgender women (although the examples here are cis men), for anatomical "evidence" that they are transgender.

What's up with people getting "transvestigated" on right wing social media? chemistrynerd1994 2025