The Transgender Dictionary
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Transphobia

(also: bigotry, cissexism, transmisia)

Introduction

While not something particularly pleasant to discuss, transphobia is extremely common in this day and age. Being able to acknowledge it, identify it, and confront it is highly important for the survival and continued existence of the transgender community.

One of the many purposes of this website is to provide accurate information on the transgender community. Transphobia is inherently based on misinformation and misunderstandings of the transgender community. While most of this website ignores its existence, this page (as well as the pages regarding gender critical, transandrophobia, transmedicalism, and transmisogyny) are focused on the the negative ways we are all too often treated for simply existing.

General Information

Transphobia is the fear of, hatred of, negative feelings towards, or aversion of those who are transsexual, transgender, or otherwise gender-non-conforming. Transphobia manifests in various ways, including (but not limited to) legal discrimination, violence, anger, bullying, corrective rape, murder, infantilization, sexualization, fearmongering, and forced detransition.

Transgender people are at higher risks of being victims of violence in public spaces, of being discriminated in housing or in the work force, and of being treated as outcasts.

Certain governments in the world are against the existance of transgender people, focusing efforts on attacking our rights instead of doing something productive. Unfortunately, there are many people who would rather see the death, detransition, and discrimination of the transgender community. There are people who are painfully close-minded who feel like the existance of someone slightly different from them is grounds for murder and medical discrimination.

Transphobes will often weaponize the existence of detransitioners as an excuse to abuse the transgender community as a whole.

United States-Based Resources

Transphobia and Anti-Semetism

Terminology Resources

Additional Resources