genderfluid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus Old French gendrebor. Middle English gendre English gender Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin fluidusder. Middle English fluid English fluid English genderfluid From gender + fluid.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.
Another way that one can be "transgressively gendered" is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid—i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.
2009, Julia Serano, Whipping Girl, page 346:For example, "queer" would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the "opposite sex," sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.
2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:A slightly newer term, genderqueer […] is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid, who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.
2011, Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users, page 29:"I'm genderfluid! Sometimes a guy, sometimes a girl. Sometimes, I guess, confused shrug? Anyway, I have a spell that lets me change my default form, so my feminine form is not an enchantment."
2020 October 28, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gender-fluid | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
bigender · genderqueer · genderfuck · genderfucker
Synonyms
Translations (14)
lb geschlechtsflësseg (not conforming to fixed gender) · ja 不定性 (not conforming to fixed gender) · pl genderfluid (not conforming to fixed gender) · pt gênero-fluido (not conforming to fixed gender) · de genderfluid (not conforming to fixed gender) · ga solúbtha ó thaobh inscne de (not conforming to fixed gender) · fi sukupuolijoustava (not conforming to fixed gender) · is kynsfljótandi (not conforming to fixed gender) · es de género fluido (not conforming to fixed gender) · de geschlechtsflüssig (not conforming to fixed gender) · ka გენდერფლუიდი (not conforming to fixed gender) · fr genre-fluide (not conforming to fixed gender) · nl genderfluïde (not conforming to fixed gender) · fr genderfluid (not conforming to fixed gender)