gatekeeping

English

Alternative forms

• gate-keeping

Noun

gatekeeping (uncountable)

1. The act or process of limiting another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
   • 2019 November, Poone Shoureshi, Daniel Dugi III, “Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty Technique”, in Lee C. Zhao, Rachel Bluebond Langner, editors, Urologic Clinics of North America, volume 46, number 4, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 511-525:

     Vaginoplasty is a major surgery with significant recovery time, and patients must be medically, socially, and emotionally prepared for success. Patients sometimes express frustration at perceived gate-keeping in requiring mental health evaluation prior to surgery, something that most cis-gender patients undergoing surgery are not required to undergo.

Verb

gatekeeping

1. present participle and gerund of gatekeep