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🌈 Not male or female 🌈 Person outside genders
genderqueer

genderqueer

1 8.6
A person who has a gender that is not only male or female
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɛndərˌkwɪr/
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  • I recently came out to myself and others as some variety of genderqueer (not sure yet what I'm calling it), after having known it in the back of my mind since I was eight.

Examples

  • The genderqueer, the transgender, the crossdressers, and the crossdreamers are invisible to most, as there are no words that help people understand who they are.

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  • We have a very special theme for just this week to visually explore and celebrate transgender and genderqueer.

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  • I am not sure it helps to classify them together with those who identify as genderqueer.

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  • This leads to the existence of the genderqueer, people who do not easily identify with one gender or the other, or for that matter, one sex or the other.

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  • I find that the more I hang out with genderqueer, queer, and trans folks, the less able I am to "see" gender in the conventional way.

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  • How does this push for abortion and reproductive rights fit trans men and trans women or those who identify as genderqueer, etc., but have a uterus?

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  • We took a good, long look in the mirror and looked at the mirrors of other faces that included genderqueer, trans*, people of color, gender-nonconforming, kinky, monogamous, polyamorous, and in relationships that put us outside of the other existing communities.

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  • As a genderqueer person, they navigate a unique identity that challenges conventional gender norms.

  • Identifying as genderqueer allows individuals to express themselves outside the binary of male and female.

  • In their community, many people proudly identify as genderqueer, embracing a spectrum of gender identities.

Synonyms

non-binary
vsgenderqueer
7.3

Having a gender that is not only a man or a woman

refers specifically to a person with that identity
androgyne
vsgenderqueer
8.6

A person who does not identify as only male or female and looks both male and female

focuses on internal identity rather than outward appearance

Antonyms

cisgender
1 6.8

A person whose sense of being a man or woman matches the sex given at birth

Surface Forms

genderqueer singular
genderqueers plural

Morphology

genderqueer = gender + queer (transparent) = gender + queer

The noun sense is the straightforward nominalization of the compound 'gender' + 'queer' (a person with a nonconforming gender identity); knowledge of the components allows inference.

Etymology

Genderqueer combines gender 'male or female' and queer 'strange' or 'different', and is used for a person whose gender does not fit the usual 'male' or 'female' categories.