@hidden @MercurialBlack @gav Here I side with Mercurial. Transphobia and transmisia are the same thing, but those two words will make someone (of the right ideological background) perceive that thing differently. If someone is fearful, we have compassion for them, we may even view their fear as an illness. If someone is hateful, they are a pure enemy. That's the connotational difference I was trying to highlight in my post.

I mean, an extreme example would be slurs. Chinese, Chinaman, Chink all mean the same thing, but I'd use different choices if I wanted to write an academic article or if I wanted to whip people into a rage against tiktok and police stations.

I think the same kind of rhetorical move is apparent in the site I linked originally: https://diversitypride.org/misiapledge.html