The notion of transphobia is not included in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). The Foundation for Urgent Spanish (Fundéu BBVA), however, recognizes the term as correct.
Transphobia is the rejection of transgender or transgender people. A transsexual or transgender person, on the other hand, is someone whose gender identity does not match the sex assigned at birth. It is important to mention that transsexual and transgender can be used as a noun or as an adjective. Trans shortening, on the other hand, is also valid.
Who manifests transphobia is transphobic or transphobic. This phobia is expressed through an aggressive attitude or behavior towards transsexual people, which can include harassment, physical violence and even murder. As occurs with the terms homophobic and homophobic, no matter how much the dictionaries of our language indicate, which indicate both as adjectives and only the second as a possible noun, in everyday speech their use is confused and adapted to the spontaneous needs of condemn these kinds of words. contempt. that causes so much damage. Transphobia implies discrimination. The transphobic does not treat transsexuals the same as other people, but instead makes trans people invisible, denigrates them, attacks them, etc. Transphobia is often thought to be based on sexism and the understanding that female/male categories are rigid and exclusive. Misogyny and homophobia are also present in transphobia. Just as trans, homosexuals and other subjects who do not fit into cisnormativity and heteronormativity challenge social norms and conventions, transphobics feel fear and hatred of questioning mental and cultural structures. One of the classic excuses of homophobes and transphobes is that they can have a “negative” influence on children, as if their sexuality were a contagious disease. Based on this, many movements obtain the approval of the authorities to continue attacking and stigmatizing homosexuals and transsexuals, directly and indirectly. It is important to mention that transphobia goes beyond individual behaviors. The company, through its institutions, tends to stigmatize and marginalize the transgender community, whose members faced great difficulties in finding work, accessing the health system, etc.
One of the indirect attacks that society launches against these people in a way that is as little hidden as it is justified is to condemn them along with the pederasts. How can a person’s sexuality, something we all have, be compared to a distorted and harmful tendency that ruins the lives of thousands of children every day? Pedophilia is a disease, and perhaps the worst, since it leads the individual to feel sexual desires for minors and, most of the time, to do everything possible to consume them. It is also very common to call transsexuals by their old names, the ones given to them from birth, which are also known as “deceased names”. This is a very low but very common attack, and it does not lack more resources to execute it than the old personal data of the victim. Like any other aggression of this type, it can never be justified, because there is no reason or trigger, but there is no more hatred and fear. Transphobic mood is quite normal, year after year it becomes more and more condemned. Until the second decade of the third millennium, it was common for movies and television to provoke easy laughter with men dressed as women, focusing on their complexion to cause humor. This also reminds us that the transsexuality of someone who is born in the body of a woman but feels like a man is less visible than the opponent, so lesbianism is not mentioned as much as homosexuality in men.
