@MercurialBlack @ai If you were to grow up in a house where every time you walk through a doorway you get electrocuted, a fear of doorways would develop. And it would be a rational response because the amount of dangerous doorways in your life would be so high. That’s the same with social phobias. If you get a poor result 90% of the time it is completely rational to grow afraid of that situation.

I agree many people view phobia as irrational, which is silly. But transphobia or homophobia is a completely different word and does not have the same connotation unless you post-hoc add the connotation like you are doing now.