metagenders

Noun

metagender (countable and uncountable, plural metagenders)

1. The use of categories to conceive of gender; the possible ways in which gender can manifest itself.
   • The realities of "being or doing" the "differences of being either female, feminine, woman or male, masculine, man" (Coates 1998, 295-296), the socially assigned sequestered private spaces and public roles we encounter in our daily lives, are not to be confounded with metagender. There should...2007, Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan Miescher, Africa After Gender?, →ISBN, page 292
2. A gender identification that is neither male nor female.
   • Metagenders can have any body type, genital configuration, or chromosome type.2003, Tracie O'Keefe, Katrina Fox, Finding the Real Me: True Tales of Sex and Gender Diversity, page 76