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transphobia

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Hatred or fear of, or prejudice against, transgender and transsexual people.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

The preference of pairs of high-trans effect soft ligands to avoid being mutually trans by becoming cis and having other low-trans effect hard ligands trans to themselves.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From trans- + -phobia or trans + -phobia.

Across languages

Translations

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: رهاب التحول الجندري — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Arabic: فوبيا التحول الجندري — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Arabic: ترانسفوبيا (trānsfūbiyā) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Belarusian: трансфобія (transfóbija) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Catalan: transfòbia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Czech: transfobie — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Danish: transfobi — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Dutch: transfobie — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Esperanto: transfobio — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Finnish: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • French: transphobie — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • West-Frisian: transfoby — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Galician: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Georgian: ტრანსფობია (ṭranspobia) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • German: Transphobie — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • German: Transfeindlichkeit — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Greek: τρανσφοβία (transfovía) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Greek: τρανφοβία (tranfovía) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Hebrew: טרנספוביה — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Hungarian: transzfóbia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Indonesian: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Interlingua: transphobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Irish: trasfóibe — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Italian: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Japanese: トランスフォビア (toransufobia) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Korean: 트랜스포비아 (teuraenseupobia) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Latin: transphobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Māori: mate mae irawhiti — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Norwegian Bokmål: transfobi — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: transfobi — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Occitan: transfòbia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Polish: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Portuguese: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Russian: трансфо́бия (transfóbija) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Spanish: transfobia — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Swedish: transfobi — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Turkish: transfobi — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness
  • Ukrainian: трансфобія (transfobija) — fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness