gatekeepings

Noun

gatekeeping (usually uncountable, plural gatekeepings)

1. (usually) The act or process of limiting another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, selfishness, complacency, or overprotectiveness.
   • Vaginoplasty is a major surgery with significant recovery time, and patients must be medically, socially, and emotionally prepared for success. Patients sometimes express frustration at perceived gate-keeping in requiring mental health evaluation prior to surgery, something that most cis-gender...2019 November, Poone Shoureshi, Daniel Dugi III, “Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty Technique”, in Lee C. Zhao, Rachel Bluebond Langner, editors, Urologic Clinics of North America, volume 46, number 4...