transphobe

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ -phobe.

Noun

transphobe (plural transphobes)

1. A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people.
   • 1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle (ed. Kate More & Stephen Whittle), Cassell (1999), →ISBN, page 214:

     The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.

Quotations

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

Antonyms

• transphile

Related terms

• transphobia
• transphobic
• transphobism

Translations

person who fears or hates trans people

• Finnish: transfoobikko (fi)
• French: transphobe (fr) m or f
• Galician: tránsfobo m, tránsfoba f, transfóbico m, transfóbica f
• Georgian: ტრანსფობი (ṭranspobi)
• German: Transphober m, Transphobe f, Transfeind m
• Portuguese: transfóbico m, transfóbica f
• Spanish: tránsfobo m, tránsfoba f, transfóbico m, transfóbica f
• Swedish: transfob (sv) c