ableistadj.

1981 Off our Backs May 35/1 One must imagine trying to show a woman with lower body paralysis that she is ‘accepted’ by saying, ‘We're all less strong than we'd like to be,’ to realize how ableist it is to say ‘We're all crazy.’

1991 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 26 Jan. a6 White, able-bodied male candidates have always been, in our racist, sexist and ‘ablist’ society, discriminated in favor of.

1993 Eng. Today Apr. 62/2 The Oxford Companion to the English Language judiciously notes that politically correct ‘is applied, especially pejoratively by conservative academics and journalists in the US, to the views and attitudes of those who publicly object to: (1) The use of terms that they consider..sexist...racist...ableist...ageist...heightist.’

2005 N. Erevelles & K. Mutua in P. J. Bettis & N. G. Adams Geographies of Girlhood xv. 267 Disabled girls often encounter shock and/or disbelief..when expressing their sexuality because ableist discourses constitute them as asexual children.