Two paintings, “Ivan the Terrible and his Son on November 16, 1581” by Ilya Repin, and “Saturn Devouring His Son” by Francisco de Goya, serve in the article as a departure point for presenting the imminent problems of male inheritance. It offers a conceptualization of transgender existence as a possibility for eluding these problems. Luce Irigaray’s concepts and way of writing serve to describe a way of transgender existence contrary to the conceptualization of transgenderism as the expression of “gender incompatibility” and medical practices of “gender reassignment” born out of that conceptualization.