gatekeeping

plural gatekeepings · alternative gate-keeping

1. uncountableusuallyThe act or process of limiting another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, selfishness, complacency, or overprotectiveness.

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   Vaginoplasty is a major surgery with significant recovery time, and patients must be medically, socially, and emotionally prepared for success. Patients sometimes express frustration at perceived gate-keeping in requiring mental health evaluation prior to surgery, something that most cis-gender patients undergoing surgery are not required to undergo.

   2019 November, Poone Shoureshi, Daniel Dugi III, “Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty Technique”, in Lee C. Zhao, Rachel Bluebond Langner, editors, Urologic Clinics of North America, volume 46, number 4, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 511-525

alternative gate-keeping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gatekeep