genderswapping

genderswapping

See also: gender-swapping

English

Alternative forms

• gender-swapping

Etymology

gender +‎ swapping

Noun

genderswapping (uncountable)

1. The practice or act of assuming a different sex and/or gender identity than one's actual sex and/or gender identity, especially in a virtual setting.
   • 2000, Jamie Fowlie, "alt.eng.disc.clean.sex: discourse@online_bodi.es", in Culture and Power: Challenging Discourses (ed. M. José Coperías Aguilar), Servei de Publicacions - Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 102:

     Unlike the Chat rooms which are rampant with genderswapping (usually unconvincingly so) brief encounters, the MOO is both a world and a more or less stable community.

   • 2001, Pamela Church Gibson, "'You've Been in My life So Long I Can't Remember Anything Else:' Into the Labyrinth with Ripley and the Alien", in Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies (eds. Matthew Tinkcom & Amy Villarejo), Routledge (2001), →ISBN, page 45:

     Genderswapping on the internet is not, of course, any solution. But Brooker might at least consider its existence, potential, and scope, rather than attributing gender where it is not possible so to do (Brooker 1999: 49).

   • 2008, Earnest Cavalli, "Majority Of MMO Gamers Cross Gender Barrier", Wired, 4 March 2008:

     Despite these issues, the researchers feel their findings should pave the way for further research, particularly whether genderswapping in an online setting has a propensity for affecting a player’s gender identity in the real world.

See also

• genderbending

Verb

genderswapping

1. present participle of genderswap