genderism

Noun

genderism (countable and uncountable, plural genderisms)

1. (uncountable, usually) A belief that gender is rigid, usually a belief that it is binary, comprising male and female, and that the aspects of a person's gender are inherently linked to their sex at birth.
   • Genderism is the ideology that there are, and should be, only two genders and that all or most aspects of one's gender are inevitably tied to the gender assigned at birth. Genderism reinforces negative attitudes toward gender nonconformity,[…]2011, Genny Beemyn, Susan Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 89
2. Belief that one gender is superior; discrimination on the basis of gender. (Compare sexism.)
   • He [Keat] points out that attacks on sexism in philosophy are often tacitly genderist, for example in denying the claim that men are more rational than women, one is likely to be accepting the claim that rationality (which is commonly regarded as the male alternative) is superior to its...1990, Andrew Collier, Socialist Reasoning: An Inquiry in the Political Philosophy of Scientific Socialism, page 167
   • But what is missing from these lists are the names and deeds of the everyday heros^([sic]), those queer activists who, though suffering from depression, have tackled the homophobia and racism and genderism that are the roots of the blues.2001, Kimeron N. Hardin, Marny Hall, Queer Blues: The Lesbian & Gay Guide to Overcoming Depression, page 201
3. (derogatory) Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.
   • [pages 108-109:] Virtually all networks and platforms mobilizing against more pluralistic and non-heteronormative (and less biologistic), sexual education at schools systematically equal gender with "genderism", that is with "gender ideology".
   • [page 183:] [...] in Poland examples of women made famous by their opposition to "genderism" include [...]2017, Roman Kuhar, David Paternotte, Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN
4. (countable) A gendered or gender-stereotyped behaviour, activity or statement.
   • Cross-cultural studies of sex-differences, sex roles, and genderisms have long been recognized as a method of identifying women in traditional roles.1980, Carol Esparza Champion, “Face-ism in Texas and Mexico”, in The Borderlands Journal
   • However, the main drawback of Goffman's theory is that it fails to account for certain asymmetries in the performance of these "genderisms". The most important of these is the fact that men seem to be much more instrumental in initiating the performance of these genderisms than women are.1986, Christine Louise Williams, Women Marines and Male Nurses