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gynemimesis

gynemimesis noun: the state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.

Noun

gynemimesis (uncountable)

  1. (dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
    • Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The...1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume...

Origin of gynemimesis

From gyne- + mimesis. Literally “female imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

Questions about gynemimesis

What does gynemimesis mean?
Gynemimesis means the state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
What part of speech is gynemimesis?
Gynemimesis is a noun.

Words near gynemimesis in the dictionary

  1. gynecophoric
  2. gynecophorous
  3. gynecratic
  4. gynee
  5. gynees
  6. gynemimesis
  7. gynemimetic
  8. gynemimetics
  9. gynemimetophilia
  10. gyneocracies
  11. gyneocracy

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