Meanings
- uncountableFear, 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 page2 more examples
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 283Many 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, →ISBNSynonyms: intersexphobia, intersexism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.
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Catalan interfòbia
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French interphobie
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German Interphobie
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Polish interfobia
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Spanish interfobia
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Cite this entry
interphobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interphobia
“interphobia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interphobia. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interphobia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interphobia.
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