Transphobia

Transphobia (or much less commonly transprejudice) is a pejorative term used to condemn all people who believe in the existence of biological genders and refuse to accept transgender ideology. Even the mere statement of biological fact e.g. Man means male and woman means female, is immediately castigated as "transphobia" and there are dangerous extremists determined to get this made a criminal offence. An ideological tool of political correctness and a form of gender denialism, it effectively enforces censorship by smearing all dissenters with accusations of mental illness - "phobia". It goes hand in hand with the ploy of replacing moral terminology with accusations of "hatred".

Transgender activists use the prefix cis to denote all those who do not deny, conceal or falsify their biological sex. Most people find this term insulting. The related term "trans bashing", analogous to "gay bashing" is used to wrongly imply that rational people who will not affirm falsehood are guilty of physical assault on cross-dressers.

Etymology and use

The word transphobia is a compound modelled on the term homophobia, sharing its second component -phobia from the Greek: φόβος, phóbos, "fear". The first component is the Latin trans- from transgender (originally meaning "across, on the far side, beyond"). Along with biphobia, homophobia and transphobia are members of the family of terms used to suppress, if not eradicate, criticisms of the LGBT ideology.

Pro-transgender editors of Wikipedia articles frequently use the term as an epithet to smear and defame their political opponents.

See also

• Anti-masker
• Anti-vaxxer
• Cissexism
• Genderism
• Gender denial
• Homophobia
• Islamophobia
• Corrective rape
• Legal aspects of transsexualism
• LGBT people in prison
• LGBT rights opposition
• List of transgender-related topics
• List of unlawfully killed transgender people
• Newspeak
• Press for Change - UK law organisation for transgender people
• Transmisogyny
• Yogyakarta Principles