gendery

gendery

English

Etymology

gender +‎ -y

Adjective

gendery (comparative more gendery, superlative most gendery)

1. (informal) Of, related to, or characteristic of gender.
   • 2004, Lynne Layton, Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?: Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory, unnumbered page:

     Why, to paraphrase Susan Coates (personal communication), are some people "more gendery" than others?

   • 2018, Nancy Chodorow, quoted in Mengchun Chiang, "'You Just Know It's the Only Thing You Can Think': A Conversation with Chodorow", in Radical Visionaries: Feminist Therapy Pioneers, 1970-1975 (eds. Claudia Pitts & Debra M. Kawahara), unnumbered page:

     Of course I'm an advocate for gender equality, but in the consulting room, I'm sensitive to and I hear, I hope, “gendery” and sexual things that are both conscious and unconscious; I hear mother-daughter especially, and I write about that.

   • 2020, endever corbin, "I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related", in Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words (ed. Maxfield Sparrow), page 82:

     These are not exactly very gendery pieces of clothing.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gendery.