Meanings
nountransphobe (plural transphobes)
plural transphobes
- A person who fears, hates or is prejudiced against transgender or transsexual people, or gender-nonconforming people in general; one who exhibits transphobia.
The object of scorn in the films are not transpersons, but the bigoted transphobes who are made to look like fools.
1999, Gordene O. Mackenzie, "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium", in Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle (ed. Kate More & Stephen Whittle), Cassell (1999), page 214
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
Also see
Origin
Translations
Finnish transfoobikko
- transfoobikkoperson who fears or hates trans people
French transphobe
- transphobeperson who fears or hates trans people
German Transphober, Transphobe
- Transphoberperson who fears or hates trans people
- Transphobeperson who fears or hates trans people
- Transfeindperson who fears or hates trans people
Polish transfob, transfobka
- transfobperson who fears or hates trans people
- transfobkaperson who fears or hates trans people
Portuguese transfóbico, transfóbica
- transfóbicoperson who fears or hates trans people
- transfóbicaperson who fears or hates trans people
Spanish tránsfobo, tránsfoba
- tránsfoboperson who fears or hates trans people
- tránsfobaperson who fears or hates trans people
- transfóbicoperson who fears or hates trans people
- transfóbicaperson who fears or hates trans people
Swedish transfob
- transfobperson who fears or hates trans people
Cite this entry
APA
transphobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transphobe
MLA
“transphobe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transphobe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transphobe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transphobe.
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