English edit

Etymology edit

gender +‎ -y

Adjective edit

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 Maxfield Sparrow, editor, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words[1], page 82:
      These are not exactly very gendery pieces of clothing.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gendery.