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pangender en · ADJ

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Etymology

From pan- + gender.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Encompassing or including all genders.
   • On one level, these changes many have served as a defensive maneuver to tone down some of the actor's pangender sexual magnetism and the homoeroticized responses associated with him as a male theatrical idol. 1996, Gaylyn Studler, This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
   • Then came the tidal wave of drugs, specifically heroin, and what had once been a haven for male alcoholics became a pangender hole-in-the-wall hideout for depraved junkies. 2002, James Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli, My life in the NYPD: Jimmy the Wags, Onyx, published 2002, →ISBN:
   • These critiques distort Gilligan's thesis, it seems to me; she can be read as arguing that the morality of women is currently undervalued culturally and as calling for its reintegration into pangender morality, not for its use as a universal standard. 1988, Catherine Lutz, Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll & Their Challenge to Western Theory, University of Chicago Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 234:
2. (not-comparable, of a person) Identifying with all genders.
   • Ranging from pangender to genderqueer and even intersex, the choices Facebook has included accurately reflects the diversity and differences of this day and age. 2014 February 25, Aysha Mahmood, “Media companies take a more progressive stance on gender”, in The Daily Campus, volume 120, number 92, University of Connecticut, page 4:
   • Just don't be surprised if you meet someone who identifies as a "non-binary neutrois pangender genderpunk autistic aspiequeer queer lithsexual punk anti-kyriarchist anarchist." 2012, Harrison Vaporciyan, "Tumbling into Trouble", The Oracle (Stratford High School, Houston, Texas), Volume 41, Issue 4, 16 November 2012, page 8
   • Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender. 2012, Alessandra Robertson, "Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 14
3. (Internet, humorous, not-comparable, offensive, sometimes) Identifying as a frying pan.

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Relateds

omnigender · polysexual · polygender · multigender · pansexual