2013, Lee Thomas, "LGBTQrazy: A is for…", The Brunswickan (University of New Brunswick), Volume 147, Issue 7, 17 October 2013, page 10:
It’s important to talk about asexuality because it’s often an overlooked sexual identity, and acephobia – discrimination against asexual people – is experienced by many asexual people.
2014, Joelle Ruby Ryan, "On Being Asexual and Transgender: Notes on Identity, Visibility, and Empowerment", in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender (ed. Laura Erickson-Schroth), Oxford University Press (2014), →ISBN, page 367:
I now give asexual workshops, screen the film (A)sexual with a postfilm discussion, and try to have conversations with my friends and colleagues about asexual identity and acephobia.
2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, "Glossary of Asexual Terms", The Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2014, page 19:
Closely linked to homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and acephobia.
2016, Kate Harrad, editor, Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain[1], page 175:
Of course, not everyone will experience acephobia in the same ways and to the same degree: as with all axes of oppression, it will intersect with and be compounded by other aspects of a person’s identity.
2020, Kelly Jensen, editor, Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy[2], unnumbered page:
Acephobia is an ugly, insidious monster.
2022, ben Bradley, Katherine Mullé, “When Nothing Changes into Something: Gender Role Stress/Conflict Among Asexual Viewers of BoJack Horseman”, in Donnalyn Pompper, editor, Rhetoric of Masculinity: Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict[3], page 72:
We suggest that this pattern should be expanded to queerphobia in order to include transphobia and acephobia, or the rhetorical and material discrimination produced by allonormativity.
2022, Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture[4], page 26:
Overall, bias against asexuals remained strong even after allotting for social prejudice against single people, confirming that acephobia is distinct from singlism.
2023, Michele Kirichanskaya, Ace Notes: Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World[5], page 195:
One of the strongest examples of acephobia I've experienced in my life came from a relative.
2023, Vaneet Mehta, Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men[6], page 189:
This can be seen with Liam, who internalized the acephobia and invalidation he experienced from his parents.
2024, Emily Garside, You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television[7], page 239:
The difference is an old-fashioned dose of homophobia–or in this case, specifically, acephobia.
Studies including rates of gender violence experienced by aspecs are virtually nonexistent, though acephobia is becoming more well known and recent research has begun to document evidence of anti-asexual bias.
