an·ti-sex·ist | \ ˌan-tē-ˈsek-sist 
, ˌan-tī- \
, ˌan-tī- \variants:
or less commonly antisexist
Definition of anti-sexist
: opposed to sexism His earliest bedtime stories had strong female and gentle male characters; he invented them because there were so few antisexist children's books.— Audre Lorde
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The first known use of anti-sexist was in 1970
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