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transphobe

transphobe

English

Noun

transphobe (plural transphobes)

  1. A person who fears or has a negative perception of trans people and/or transsexuality/transgenderism.
    • 1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle (ed. Kate More & Stephen Whittle), Cassell (1999), ISBN 0304337773, page 214:
      The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.

Quotations

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