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transphobic

transphobic adjective: exhibiting transphobia.

Adjective

transphobic (comparative more transphobic, superlative most transphobic)

  1. Exhibiting transphobia.
    • And it too closely parallels transphobic attacks that charge: "Once a man, always a man; once a woman, always a woman."1999, Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
    • When 64% of trans pupils say they are bullied for being LGBTQ+ at school, almost half of those bullied never tell anyone about it, and 46% say they hear transphobic language “frequently” at school, it’s fair to say there is a crisis in our education system around tackling bullying, violence...August 24 2021, Shon Faye, “‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion”, in The Guardian

Examples of transphobic in a sentence

  • Conversely, homophobic, transphobic, and interphobic environments lead to violence against students and educational staff.
  • "Straight men get called transphobic because I wouldn't date a trans woman.
  • Transphobic feminists routinely pedojacket trans rights activists, so direct your tone shaming appropriately.

All 11 example sentences with transphobic

Synonyms of transphobic

Forms of transphobic

comparativemore transphobic
superlativemost transphobic

Origin of transphobic

From trans- + -phobic.

Words formed from transphobic

Questions about transphobic

What does transphobic mean?
Transphobic means exhibiting transphobia.
What part of speech is transphobic?
Transphobic is an adjective.

Words near transphobic in the dictionary

  1. transphincteric
  2. transphobe
  3. transphobes
  4. transphobia
  5. transphobias
  6. transphobic
  7. transphobically
  8. transphobism
  9. transphonologisation
  10. transphonologisations
  11. transphonologise

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