Meaning of genderphobia | Babel Free

Definitions

Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.

uncountable

Examples

“Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.”

“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.”

“Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.”

“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 […]”

CEFR level