Transphobia

Quick meaning: Transphobia is a noun meaning Hatred or fear of, or prejudice against, transgender and transsexual people.

Meaning

Hatred or fear of, or prejudice against, transgender and transsexual people.

More Meanings

1. (chemistry) 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.

Example Sentences

In this case, transphobia is represented in Pollock's terms as both the "condition and the effect" of Cameron's social existence.

This unusual reactivity and the selectivity observed can be explained as a consequence of the high transphobia of aryl and P-donor ligands […]

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.

The reactions of trans-[Pt(Mef)Br(PPh₃)₂] with AgBF₄ and Ph₃ECHC(O)R (E = P, R = Me, OMe, Ph; E = As, R = Me) afford only trans-[Pt(Mef){OC(=CHEPh₃)R}(PPh₃)₂] because the C-alkyl/C-ylide transphobia is greater than the C-alkyl/O-ylide transphobia and also because of the lower steric requirement of the O-ylide ligand.

Word Forms

• transphobias

Synonyms for transphobia

Depending on context, synonyms include cissexism, transprejudice.

Antonyms for transphobia

Common opposites include transphilia, cisphobia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transphobe, homotransphobia, transmisogyny, transmisia, transphobism, transphilia.

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