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- noun A person who
fears or has anegative perception oftrans people and/ortranssexuality /transgenderism .
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Examples
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Far easier to demand that – in the words of feminist icon and transphobe Janice Raymond – we are morally mandated out of existence.
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And it only needs one transphobe to start and all hell will inevitably break loose …
Will the last trans person to leave feminist Blogdonia please turn off the lights? 2008
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I know that many do their best to raise a little homophobe or transphobe , in the hopes of continuing heterosexual privilege but history has proven that regardless of the actions of the parents, if one is indeed LGBT it will indeed assert itself.
Archive 2009-07-01 Renee 2009
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I know that many do their best to raise a little homophobe or transphobe , in the hopes of continuing heterosexual privilege but history has proven that regardless of the actions of the parents, if one is indeed LGBT it will indeed assert itself.
Lesbian Kissing Will Destroy The WNBA Renee 2009
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He's a transphobe that is just spamming this blog with his bigotry.
A Nose By Any Other Name Would Smell Zoe Brain 2008
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Let's not forget: this is a man who makes a living as the funniest PC liberal ever to sit in front of a piano, and no such person likes to be told that he is an unwitting transphobe.
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We are challenging the capitalist, the racist, the homophobe, the transphobe, the rapist, the able-ist, the size-ist, the classist and the misogynist.
PTBC J-Log 2010
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One of the things that irritates me is when the people in the GLBT community who prefer candy bars start hollering 'homophobe' or 'transphobe' when allies offer constructive criticism.
TransGriot 2009
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The same goes for any bully: A racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a disablist, a fat-hater, a xenophobe, a privileged jerk of any stripe who belligerently wields hir privilege like a weapon.
Shakesville 2009
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My reading of this is that there are some people within PFC (” campaigning for respect and equality for ALL trans people”) who agree with Stonewall’s nomination of a transphobe for an award.
hugovk commented on the word transphobe
transphobe, n.
The Guardian, 9 October 2015:
January 1, 2016