Definitions

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  • adjective Of two genders.

Etymologies

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bi- +‎ gendered

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Examples

  • Other categories of transgender people include androgynous, bigendered, and gender queer people.

    RIP, Mike Penner « Dating Jesus 2009

  • I find it monstrous that children who are arbitrarily surgically modified to have an appearance that conforms to genital norms, whether intersexed or not and in the past, there have been some dark hints by surgeons that some normal boys were castrated purely because the parents wanted a girl child, and whose mind is not bigendered enough to be content in the new role, are labelled as "mentally ill".

    A Nose By Any Other Name Would Smell Zoe Brain 2008

  • But we of all people should know about fuzzy boundaries, and bigendered models as being really good approximations rather than sharp divides.

    In Good Company Zoe Brain 2008

  • 2. Then some of us are GLBT - people who do not fit in in some way with the standard bigendered model, where men look and act in accordance with society's norm for men and are only attracted to women, and women look and act accordance with society's norm for women and are only attracted to men.

    T is for... Zoe Brain 2008

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