Word: transphobia
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...change their gender in the eyes of the law. And to get the green light for surgery, they must still undergo extensive medical and psychiatric evaluations. "It's a symbolic victory," says Louis-Georges Tin, president of the Paris-based IDAHO committee, which fights homophobia and what it calls "transphobia," or discrimination against transsexuals. "Transsexuals are no longer mentally ill," he says. "They're normal citizens. But we haven't yet reached the point where they're allowed to make their own decisions instead of depending on doctors and psychiatrists." (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...these legal issues can be exacerbated by transphobia,” Barusch said...
...homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia are still very much a fact of life here. Many queer students are still expected to explain or defend their identities and decisions, there are queer students who continue to find Harvard an inhospitable place to come out, people’s sexual and gender identities still serve as a basis for prejudice, and anti-queer acts of violence occur. Moreover, some social circles are considerably less accepting than others. Despite all of the progress Harvard has made, we can still make the University a better place for queer students, faculty, and staff...
...labeling someone a “homophobe” for favoring, say, an ROTC presence on campus is an effective way of ending a debate, not engaging in one. To be sure, Skier’s pronouncement that “most objections to [the bathroom proposal] are blatant transphobia [sic],” may give her the rhetorical upper-hand by labeling potential critics as hateful, but it wins her no friends...
...think that most objections to this very reasonable modest proposal are blatant transphobia,” Skier said. “Saying that people don’t deserve to go to the bathroom which is a basic student life or workplace issue is equivalent to saying that transgender people shouldn’t be at Harvard and that is just wrong...