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genderphobia

genderphobia noun: fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.

Noun

genderphobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.
    • Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.2005 January, Vincent Stephens, “Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia”, in Popular Music, volume 24, number 1, page 23
    • She characterized women's reactions to a masculine person in a public rest room as “an example of genderphobia” (1996, 117), viewing such women as policing gender boundaries rather than believing that there really is a man in the women's rest room.2008, Joan Z. Spade, Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page 29

Examples of genderphobia in a sentence

  • Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.2015, Virginia Nicholson, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Penguin Books, →ISBN:
  • Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities.2023 March 29, Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek, Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and...

Origin of genderphobia

From gender + -phobia.

Questions about genderphobia

What does genderphobia mean?
Genderphobia means fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.
How do you use genderphobia in a sentence?
Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.
What part of speech is genderphobia?
Genderphobia is a noun.

Words near genderphobia in the dictionary

  1. genderlessness
  2. genderlike
  3. genderly
  4. genderneutral
  5. genderology
  6. genderphobia
  7. genderplay
  8. genderpunk
  9. genderquake
  10. genderquakes
  11. genderqueer

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