pretty telling that first reation of some here can be summed with: what is really white?

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    You have a middle schooler’s understanding of the world around you, and that is being unkind to most middle schoolers.

    phobia can also mean aversion, as in hydrophobic…or an aversion to water.

    Did your parents drop you on your head when you were younger? Or did you have to work to become so ignorant?

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        phobia is a persistent, excessive, unrealistic fear of an object, person, animal, activity, or situation. It is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with a phobia either tries to avoid the thing that triggers the fear, or endures it with great anxiety and distress.

        Lol, you do understand that the definition of a word is different from its use as a suffix?

        “The suffix -phobia comes from the Greek word phobos, meaning “fear” or “panic,” and is used to form nouns that mean an extreme or irrational fear, aversion, or hatred of a specific thing.”

        I don’t have an aversion to transvestites, I just feel sad for their pain and wish they could focus on something other than playing dressup (or worse, mangling their hormones and/or genitals)

        When you feel sad for someone’s pain you tend to empathize with them, not specifically use hate speech and inflammatory language to hurt them more.

        Can’t imagine what it’s like to center your life around gender identity. It’s like seeing a cripple, you know?

        I bet there’s a lot of things you lack the intelligence to imagine.

        I would hug you if I thought it’d heal you.

        I’m a happily married cishet dude. I’m just not a transphobe for the same reason I’m not a racist, because I’m not a braindead Incel fucking loser.

        hydrophobic literally means water-fearing

        Again… Displaying your ignorance proudly.

        Hydrophiba means fear of water.

        Hydrophobic means aversion, dislike, or repels water

        Suffix -phobic : Biology and Chemistry: Describes organisms or substances that repel or dislike certain conditions (e.g., hydrophobic materials that repel water).