transphobia

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transphobia

noun transphobias

  1. uncountable, usually Hatred or fear of, or prejudice against, transgender and transsexual people or transness in general, which may manifest in prejudice against people who do not conform to social gender roles (gender-nonconforming people) in general. It is not really a debate about privacy and personal safety versus politics, so much as an impulse towards pride and a rejection of internalized transphobia.
  2. uncountable, usually The preference of pairs of high-trans effect soft ligands to avoid being mutually trans by becoming cis and having other low-trans effect hard ligands trans to themselves. This unusual reactivity and the selectivity observed can be explained as a consequence of the high transphobia of aryl and P-donor ligands […]

Similar: cissexism, transphobia, transprejudice · Opposite: transphilia, cisphobia

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noun fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness

Españoltransfobia
한국어트랜스포비아 teuraenseupobia
日本語トランスフォビア toransufobia
Portuguêstransfobia
Françaistransphobie
DeutschTransphobie, Transfeindlichkeit
Italianotransfobia
Ελληνικάτρανσφοβία transfovía, τρανφοβία tranfovía
Românătransfobie
Русскийтрансфо́бия transfóbija
العربيةرُهَاب التَحَوُّل الجَنْدَرِيّ ruhāb at-taḥawwul al-jandariyy, رُهَاب التَحَوُّل الجِنْسِيّ ruhāb at-taḥawwul al-jinsiyy, تْرَانْسْفُوبِيَا trānsfūbiyā
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@misc{transphobia_2026,
  title = {transphobia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/transphobia},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}