Meanings
- uncountablePrejudice against heterosexual people.
Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.
2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 1191 more example
Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients.
2014, Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, Thelma Duffy, A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men, page 124 - uncountablePrejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.
You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us.
2001, Daya Singh Sandhu, Faces of Violence
Origin
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heteroprejudice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heteroprejudice
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