gendervague

See also: gender-vague

English

Etymology

gender +‎ vague

Adjective

gendervague (not comparable)

1. (neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).
   • 2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in Finn V. Gratton, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families (2019), page 15:

     Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence—being autistic doesn't cause my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender.

   • 2019, "Acknowledgements", in Katie Steele & Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, unnumbered page:

     […] Julia Feliz—a gendervague, pansexual, Afro-Boricua (Puerto Rican)—created the flag design used in this image.

   • 2021, “Contributors”, in Emily Paige Ballou, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Sharon daVanport, editors, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity‎^[1], page 204:

     Lei Wiley-Mydske is an autistic and otherwise disabled mom, […] activist, artist, and gendervague writer from the Pacific Northwest.

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

Synonyms

• neurogender

Hypernyms

• neuroqueer

Hyponyms

• autigender

See also

• gender-vague (“gender-nonspecific”)