For Genderbending
or
Genderbreaking People
- Ambigendered
- Androgyne
- Arenotelicon (Used in the
Physiologus, an anonymous book
of the early Renaissance, to describe hyenas, which at that time
were believed to change their sex every year. This word was
dredged up and resurrected by Raphael Carter in the Androgyny
RAQ: Angel's Dictionary.)
- Bade (Crow Native American
term)
- Basement transvestite (Invented by
Alison Laing as a term for a cross-dresser who cross-dresses only
in private, possibly with close friends or family present but not
in full-view of the world)
- Berdache
- Bigendered
- Bona (Roman term literally meaning
"good person"; used to refer to one of a group of
crossdressing male and female pagan dancers to whom the Romans
gave gifts in the hope that the Bonae would grant prosperity to
their houses.)
- Buyazi (Gisu African word for a male or
female crossdresser; more recently it has also come to imply
homosexuality)
- CD (Short for
"cross-dresser")
- Clotheshorse (A person who cross-dresses
but is unwilling to accept the label
"cross-dresser")
- Cotquean
- Coyote ("Native American Trickster
god sometimes portrayed as male, some times as female, sometimes
as straight, gay, lesbian, or crossdresser of either gender; in
some stories he carries his penis in a box on his
back."—Gary Bowen's Dictionary
of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Creatively gendered
- Cross-dresser
- Drag monarch
- Elxa (Native American term)
- Epicene (Describes a person with
characteristics common to both sexes. Alternately, it is also
used to describe garments or residences worn or inhabited by both
sexes, or words which can be applied to both sexes without any
change in gramattical form. More details on this word are
available from Raphael Carter's Androgyny RAQ:
Angel's Dictionary.)
- False transvestite (A woman pretending
to be a man in women's clothes, or a man pretending to be a
woman wearing men's clothes, such as the Chevalier
d'Eon)
- Flaming
- Fribble
- Genderbender
- Genderbender
- Genderbreaker
- Gender dysphoric
- Gender euphoric
- Genderfree
- Genderfucker
- Gender outlaw
- Genderqueer
- Gender refusenik (Invented by Raphael
Carter and popularized in the Androgyny RAQ:
Angel's Dictionary as a term for people denied
sex-change surgery "whether due to lack of funds or
psychological paternalism.")
- Gender transgressor
- Gender trash
- Gender variant
- Guevedoche (Dominican Republic word
literally meaning "penis at twelve": An intersexed
person who appears female at birth, but whose testicles descend
and penis develops at puberty)
- Gynander
- Gynandroid
- Gynandromorph (Scientific term for
insects displaying characteristics of multiple sexes)
- Haja (Hausa African term for a man who
is sexually penetrated by a partner of either gender, or for a
woman who sexually penetrates a partner of either
gender)
- Heemaneh (Cheyenne Native American word
for an androgynous priest or a lesbian or gay person)
- Hermaphrodite
- Heesh (Genderfree pronoun occasionally
used as a noun)
- Hem (Genderfree pronoun occasionally
used as a noun)
- Hesh (Genderfree pronoun occasionally
used as a noun)
- He-she (Genderfree pronoun occasionally
used as a noun)
- Heterogendered
- Heterovestite
- Himmer (Genderfree pronoun occasionally
used as a noun)
- Humangendered
- Invert (Used by 19th century
sexologists)
- Isangoma (Zulu African word for
transgendered priests and priestesses)
- It (Genderfree pronoun occasionally used
as a noun)
- Kitesha (Basongye African: "An
alternate gender role for males and females; male and female
kitesha have sex with one another [and] they may also engage in
either homosexual or heterosexual relationships with other
non-kitesha members of their communities; the male kitesha
partially crossdresses and takes some of the duties assigned to
women (eg, the gathering of firewood), but not much is known
about the female kitesha."—Gary Bowen's Dictionary
of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Ko'lhamana (Zuni Native American:
"A male warrior who was conquered by a warrior woman who
made him dress in women's clothes."—Gary
Bowen's Dictionary
of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Kokwima (Acoma Native American word for
"hermaphrodite")
- Kwol-aatmo (From the Sambia people of
Papua New Guinea, literally meaning "female thing turning
into male": An intersexed person "who appears female at
birth, but whose testicles descend and penis develops at puberty
when the testosterone kicks in."—Gary Bowen's Dictionary
of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Metagendered
- Moffie (South African term for a
hermaphrodite, queer, or genderqueer person)
- Multigendered
- Mzili (Bagishu African word for a
hermaphrodite, queer, or genderqueer person)
- Neutrois
- No name (Pejorative term from Latin
America and the Phillippines)
- Nongendered
- Non-op transsexual
- Pandaka (Thai word for a eunuch,
hermaphrodite, queer, or genderqueer person)
- Pangendered
- Person
- Polygendered
- PoMogendered (Short for
"postmodernly gendered"; inspired by the book PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and
Lawrence Schimel)
- Psychological hermaphrodite
- Queerer
- Recast (Transgendered: "recast as a
. . .")
- Salmacian (Invented by Raphael Carter
and popularized in the Androgyny RAQ:
Angel's Dictionary as a term for
male-to-intersex and female-to-intersex transsexuals; derived
from the name of the nymph Salamacis, whose body was merged with
that of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite in the ancient Greek myth
which also gave us the word "hermaphrodite")
- Scrat (Diminutive of
"uelscratta" below; Old English for
"hermaphrodite")
- Senp'aa (Tewa Native American word
meaning "manly woman")
- S/he
- Shapeshifter
- Shih-niang (Ancient Chinese holy person
who partially cross-dressed)
- Shim
- Sie
- Spiritual hermaphrodite
- T* (Short for
"trans-anything")
- Taikwahni wa'ippe' (Shoshoni
Native American word for a female-bodied transgendered
person)
- Taikwahni tainnapa' (Shoshoni Native
American word for a male-bodied transgendered person)
- TG (Short for
"transgendered")
- Third sex
- Tranny
- Trans
- Transcendent
- Transgendered
- Transgenderist (Defines one's
transgenderism as a political statement)
- Transexual (Variant spelling invented by
Riki Anne Wilchins for the direct action group Transexual
Menace)
- Transsexual
- Transsexualist (Defines one's
transsexualism as a political statement)
- Transvestite
- TS (Short for
"transsexual")
- TV (Short for
"transvestite")
- Ubhatobyanjanaka (Thai word for
"hermaphrodite")
- Uelscratta (Old English for
"hermaphrodite")
- Waeponwifestre (Old English for
"hermaphrodite")
- Warharmi (In Tipai Native American
culture, a legendary hermaphrodite who gave birth to two sons and
established the Tipai culture.)
- Weekend warrior (A person who crosses,
bends, or breaks gender on weekends only)
- Wikami (From the name of "a sacred
mountain in California, revered by the Mohave, Tipai, Ipai, and
Yuma Indians, [which] is the source of the Creator Spirit who
made transgendered people, or the hermphrodite spirit that gave
culture to each of the tribes"—Gary Bowen's Dictionary
of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Wiya numpa (Lakota Sioux Native American
for "double woman": a hermaphrodite spirit which
appears to males and females and requires them to begin
cross-dressing. "When a woman dreams of the Double Woman,
from that time on, in everything she makes, no one excels her.
But then the woman is very much like a crazy woman. She laughs
uncontrollably and so time and again she acts deceptively. She
causes all men who stand near her to become possessed. For that
reason these women are called Double Women. They are very
promiscuous, having many husbands. But then in the things they
make no one excels them. They do much quillwork. From then on,
they are very skillful. They also do work like a man... Even now,
they believe these things are holy."—Thomas Tyon,
Lakota American, as quoted in Gary Bowen's Dictionary
of Words for Masculine Women.)
- Wobo (Maale African word literally
meaning "crooked," often used to refer to
gender-bending people)
- Woodworker (A transsexual who prefers to
"blend into the woodwork" rather than be openly
transsexual)
- Wor sitabane (South African for
"possessing both a penis and a vagina"; also often used
to refer to feminine gay men)
- Xanith (Term from Oman, referring to a
feminine but not castrated man, or to a female eunuch or
masculine woman)
- X-dresser (Short for
"cross-dresser")
- XDR (Short for
"cross-dresser")
See also: For masculine
women
For feminine men
For transwomen
For transmen
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