What is Genderqueer?
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Genderqueer is most commonly used to describe a person who feels that his/her gender identity does not fit into the socially constructed "norms" associated with his/her biological sex.
Genderqueer is an identity that falls anywhere between man/boy/male and woman/girl/female on the spectrum of gender identities.
Mary doesn't feel that s/he fits the mold of any one particular gender; therefore, Mary identifies as genderqueer.
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Any position in a wide variety of gender identities, spanning the spectrum between male and female. A person who is Genderqueer is not
Eli might have a woman's body, but
ze doesn't feel like a woman or a man. Eli is genderqueer.
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3.
An identification of gender in which people present their gender in a way that does not represent either man or woman, and which allows for open ended interpretations of one's identity. A classification within the transgendered (not to be confused with transsexual) umbrella
n: "that genderqueer is scaring the nuclear family next door!"
a: "I can't pick what gender I want to be today! I guess I'll be genderqueer"
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