endosexism

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noun

A system, practice, or bias privileging endosex people over intersex people.

Scrabble 20

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nounendosexism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableA system, practice, or bias privileging endosex people over intersex people.

    There's nothing threatening about saying some common trans ontologies in their infancy were rooted in endosexism

    2017 October 6, Siobhan O'Leary, tweet (archived)
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    In fact, numerous studies have demonstrated how manhood also relies on and reproduces societal patterns of cissexism, endosexism, monosexism, heterosexism, classism, racism, ageism, nationalism, and religious privilege in the United States.

    2020, J. E. Sumerau, Violent Manhood, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, pages 6–7

    We discuss this finding with reference to cisgenderism and endosexism, focusing particularly on being critical of ‘gender’ and foregrounding biological sex, and views for and against self-identifying gender.

    2020, Elizabeth Peel, Hannah J. H. Newman, Gender's wider stakes: lay attitudes to legal gender reform, in feminists@law (ISSN 2046-9551)

    Stigma and discrimination combined with minority stress, and cultural and social norms that give preference to heterosexuality, cisgenderism and endosexism, are some of the root causes that contribute to these health inequalities.

    2020 May, Valeria Donisi et al., “Training healthcare professionals in LGBTI cultural competencies: Exploratory findings from the Health4LGBTI pilot project”, in Patient Education and Counseling, volume 103, number 5, pages 978–987

    Intersex people are not extremely rare, although endosexism (up to and including forced genital surgery in infancy) has contributed to conditions that lead us to believe they are.

    2022 September 6, Reese Minshew, Treating Trauma in Trans People: An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN

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APA

endosexism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endosexism

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“endosexism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endosexism. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “endosexism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endosexism.

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