genderphobia

genderphobia

English

Etymology

gender +‎ -phobia

Noun

genderphobia (uncountable)

1. Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.
   • 2005, Vincent Stephens, "Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia", Popular Music, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2005, page 23:

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

   • 2008, Joan Z. Spade & Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press (2008), →ISBN, page 29:

     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.

   • 2015, Virginia Nicholson, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Penguin Books (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

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

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:genderphobia.