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interphobia en · NOUN

Etymology

intersex + -phobia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.
    • I knew those attitudes were out there, but I'd already learned that I had to reject the racism I'd experienced as a child, and the homophobia later on, so it seemed natural to also reject the interphobia I saw directed at intersex people. 2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, unnumbered page:
    • Behrensen condemns the practice of targeting certain athletes and subjecting them to the indignity and humiliation of a procedure that has no bearing on athletic ability and that further violates privacy in the service of accommodating interphobia. 2017, Thomas Keith, Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity, page 283:
    • Many intersex people and intersex studies scholars note how various oppressive systems—interphobia, heterosexism, phallogocentrism, queerphobia, as well as compulsory dyadism, heterosexuality, and able-bodiedness—work together to justify curative violence. 2021, Rohini Bannerjee, Karim Mukhida, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press, →ISBN:

Coordinates

biphobia · heterophobia · homophobia · transphobia · cisphobia

Synonyms

intersexism · intersexphobia

Translations (5)

ca interfòbia (Translations) · de Interphobie (Translations) · fr interphobie (Translations) · pl interfobia (Translations) · es interfobia (Translations)