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  • noun Plural form of genderqueer.

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Examples

  • This is why “trannyboys” and “genderqueers” are more desirable than post-transition transguys.

    Should men be called feminists? 2006

  • I identify as queer-oriented, and I identify with genderqueers if not as genderqueer.

    Should men be called feminists? 2006

  • I would tend to start more inclusive, ie, “feminist/womanist” rather than “radical feminist/separatist”, and encourage transwomen and feminist transmen and genderqueers, and any feminist men who have the discretion to not dominate the discussion to consider themselves thread citizens.

    Why Alas Needs Radical Feminist Woman Only Threads 2005

  • It actually happens to women and queers and genderqueers and trans people all over the world.

    Anarchist news dot org - Comments 2010

  • They've also upset 78ers, animal rights queers, community groups by charging for Fair Day and Parade entries, local genderqueers by importing Amanda LePore as chef de parade when there are many eminently suitable locals, not to mention practically everyone by staging the Parade and the Party a week apart.

    Current Affairs 2010

  • When trans women and transfeminine genderqueers are assumed to be conformist, apolitical, and weak while trans men and transmasculine genderqueers are assumed to be radical, with it, and hip, that's transmisogyny (and femmephobia, and subversivism).

    The Bilerico Project 2009

  • "Transgender" is an umbrella term for all people who defy other people's expectations and assumptions regarding gender, and can be used to refer to transsexuals as well as people who are gender nonconforming in other ways -- for example, cross-dressers, drag performers, feminine men, masculine women, and genderqueers (who do not identify exclusively as either women or men), to name a few.

    Life, Law, Gender 2008

  • There aren’t any fem trans* guys or butch trans* women; and certainly no genderqueers!

    Julie Bindel’s statement 2008

  • And as a queer living in NYC, let me disabuse you of the notion that it’s all happy dandy for all queers, genderqueers and trans folks in NYC.

    For The Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant 2006

  • To the extent that not all but many trannies bring the whole categorization scheme into question, feminism and the quest for all “women’s rights” that come out of it is going to have to work to figure out what, exactly, is meant by “woman” — because there will always be some trannies or genderqueers who still identify to some extent with women, even after they’ve transitioned.

    Should men be called feminists? 2006

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