Definition of "heteronormativity" [heteronormativity]

• The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes. (noun)
• Discrimination against non-heteronormative individuals. (noun)
• Situations wherein non-heteronormative individuals are ignored or presumed to not exist. (noun)

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• "Sev - but surely heteronormativity = basic human nature for the vast majority of hetero normal people hence the very name heteronormativity?"
• "Queer theorists have sought to demonstrate that a wide range of social institutions display heteronormativity, that is, the assumption of heterosexuality and of the gender difference that defines it, as a norm."
• "Rather, it represents just one several ways in which the Govt sought to "de-sexualize" the Civil Partnership Act, and by extension de-sexualize same-sex relationships, in a way which, in my view, reflects a prevailing heteronormativity that is to say, it reflects, and also reinforces, the social and political forces that force us to conform to heterosexual norms."