This morning on BBC radio’s flagship news programme an eminent journalist defined ‘transphobia’ as ‘irrational fear of people who change sex’.
(The LGBT activist he was interviewing didn’t disagree.)
I post this because I’m aware that as part of the discussion about whether words like ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia’ should be abandoned there’s some debate about whether the form of those words really misleads anyone into thinking that they describe psychological states similar to claustrophobia or arachnophobia.
I have no strong view about that debate but evidence is always useful and here is a single piece of anecdotal evidence to be taken into account.
