genderist

English

Etymology

From gender +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

genderist (plural genderists)

1. (rare) One who discriminates based on gender.
   • 2003, Bruce E. Kaufman, Richard A. Beaumont, Roy B. Helfgott, Industrial Relations to Human Resources and Beyond:

     Although some opponents of Affirmative Action may be aversive racists/genderists, many others believe that it is morally wrong to consider at all a person's ethnicity or gender in decision making.

2. (rare) One who studies gender.
   • 2010, Julie Ballantyne, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Navigating Music and Sound Education, page 80:

     So while critical genderists avoid the labels of masculinities and feminist writing, queer theory provides an opportunity for research into gendered practices in music to be viewed through multiple and often contradictory lenses […]

3. (uncommon, in right-wing usage, derogatory) One who believes in gender ideology or does not support traditional gender roles.
   • 2010, William Davis Eaton, Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm, ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC., →ISBN, page 47:

     The Feminist Movement, […] is split between two types of feminists: the equality feminists and the gender feminists. Those who demand equal rights, […] are the equality feminists, […] The others are the NOW type, […] the gender feminists, or genderists. This radical element attempts to remodel women into something other than what nature has determined women to be. […] The genderists address particular vitriol toward non-conforming women still "enslaved" to men, like those who get married and have babies, […] And for her apostasy, Sommers says, the genderists “wish to excommunicate me from my sex.” The genderists tend to position themselves among the far left politically, to reject all advances of women as inadequate, and to hate America.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:genderist.

Related terms

• genderism

Adjective

genderist

1. Pertaining to or exhibiting genderism, a belief that gender is rigid, binary, and determined by sex.
   • 2007, Brent Laurence Bilodeau, Genderism: Transgender Students, Binary Systems and Higher Education:

     To summarize, in a genderist culture, transgender identities are so highly invisible and marginalized, that "accessing" them is profoundly difficult.

   • 2019, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz, Transgressed: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 75:

     In the following sections, I separate out two major and salient themes of abuses against transgender victims: genderist and transphobic attacks.

See also

• sexist

Anagrams

• deserting