Genderqueer

Brett Genny Beemyn

First widely used in the late 1990s, genderqueer is an identity adopted by individuals who characterize themselves as neither female nor male, as both, or as somewhere in between. Although genderqueers describe and express their identities differently and may or may not consider themselves to be transgender (a general term for people whose gender identity or expression differs from the gender assigned to them at birth), they commonly understand themselves in ways that challenge binary constructions of gender and traditional images of transgender individuals. Genderqueer is an identity more frequently embraced by younger gender nonconforming people, ensuring that the crossing and blurring of gender lines will continue to become more visible and likely more accepted. The concept of genderqueer has its genesis in the development of a queer movement in the 1990s that redefined queer as a term of empowerment and confronted heteronormativity and the conformist ideologies of many genderqueer ...

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