Genderqueer
adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who is genderqueer.
"I am a FAAB (female-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer, and I have a good friend who is a MAAB (male-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer."
Verb
- 1 (sometimes considered offensive) To make genderqueer. transitive
Adjective
- 1 Not exclusively male or female; having or pertaining to a gender identity which is not represented by the gender binary. not-comparable, offensive, sometimes
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"I used to be really cis, but by now I've become pretty genderqueer."
Etymology
From gender + queer. First known uses were in queer zines of the 1980s. Popularized in the 1990s including by Riki Wilchins.