Genderphobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Genderphobia is a noun meaning Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.
Meaning
Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.
Example Sentences
Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.
Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.
Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities. Genderphobia is also very much used to enforce xenophobic and nationalist policies […]
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gayphobia, normalphobia, femmephobia, gynophobia, heterophobia, transphobia.
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