Meaning

(rare) One who discriminates based on gender..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) One who discriminates based on gender.
2. (rare) One who studies gender.
3. (uncommon, derogatory) One who believes in gender ideology or does not support traditional gender roles.
4. Pertaining to or exhibiting genderism, a belief that gender is rigid, binary, and determined by sex.

Example Sentences

Although some opponents of Affirmative Action may be aversive racists/genderists, many others believe that it is morally wrong to consider at all a person's ethnicity or gender in decision making.

So while critical genderists avoid the labels of masculinities and feminist writing, queer theory provides an opportunity for research into gendered practices in music to be viewed through multiple and often contradictory lenses […]

The Feminist Movement, […] is split between two types of feminists: the equality feminists and the gender feminists. Those who demand equal rights, […] are the equality feminists, […] The others are the NOW type, […] the gender feminists, or genderists. This radical element attempts to remodel women into something other than what nature has determined women to be. […] The genderists address particular vitriol toward non-conforming women still "enslaved" to men, like those who get married and have babies, […] And for her apostasy, Sommers says, the genderists “wish to excommunicate me from my sex.” The genderists tend to position themselves among the far left politically, to reject all advances of women as inadequate, and to hate America.

To summarize, in a genderist culture, transgender identities are so highly invisible and marginalized, that "accessing" them is profoundly difficult.

In the following sections, I separate out two major and salient themes of abuses against transgender victims: genderist and transphobic attacks.

Word Forms

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Use genderist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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