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gendertrash

gendertrash noun: people of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary or conventional conceptions of gender.

Noun

gendertrash (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, humorous) People of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary or conventional conceptions of gender.
    • From this viewpoint, transgendered bodies and genders are that outside; and it is precisely by discarding us as “gendertrash” if you will, by stigmatizing us or delegitimating us off the grid as merely “aberrant” or “deviant” or (Virginia Prince here) “defective” or “pathological,” which enables...1995, Riki Wilchins, "What's In A Name: The Politics of Gender Speak", Transgender Tapestry, Winter 1995, page 47
    • This not only serves no purpose and makes *you* look like an ugly person, it also […] lends legitimacy to the kind of thinking that leads the bigots to insist that we're *all* gendertrash.1998 November 10, Dale Elizabeth, “Re: What Changing One's Sex Really Means....”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet)

Origin of gendertrash

From gender + trash. The first known use was as the title of a transgender-interest zine published out of Toronto from 1993-1995. The first attested use as an independent word was in two magazine articles by Riki Wilchins in 1995.

Questions about gendertrash

What does gendertrash mean?
Gendertrash means people of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary or conventional conceptions of gender.
What part of speech is gendertrash?
Gendertrash is a noun.

Words near gendertrash in the dictionary

  1. genderspecials
  2. genderswap
  3. genderswapped
  4. genderswapping
  5. genderswaps
  6. gendertrash
  7. gendervague
  8. genderweird
  9. genderwise
  10. gendery
  11. gendie

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