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neurogender

noun

Etymology

From neuro- + gender.

  1. derived from genus — “type, kind”
  2. derived from gendre
  3. inherited from gendre
  4. prefixed as neurogender — “neuro- + gender”

Definitions

  1. The gender of one's brain.

    • Murphy was concerned with the “cross gendered,” those whose “neurogender [gender/sex of the brain] is not the same as the morphological/physical/genital gender.

  2. A gender type that is linked to neurological factors.

    • Includes “genderqueer/gender non-conforming”, “genderfluid”, “agender”, “nonbinary”, and other (eg, “neurogender”, “bigender”, “androgyne”, “two-spirit”, “questioning”)

  3. Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).

    • If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.
    • Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for neurogender. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA