gynemimesis
English
Etymology
gyne- + mimesis. Literally “female imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.
Noun
gynemimesis (uncountable)
- (dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
- 1984, John Money; Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25:
- Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The corresponding terms that apply to the female are andromimesis and andromimetophile.
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See also
- gynemimetic
- gynemimetophilia
- andromimetic
- andromimesis
- transgender
- trans woman