bigenderism
Meanings
noun
- The theory that society enforces a strict male-female gender binary, privileges masculinity and maleness over femininity and femaleness, and (when the theory is strictly construed) limits gender to a direct correspondence with assigned sex at birth.
noun
- The state of being bigender; the state of having two (or multiple) genders simultaneously.
Word forms
Etymology
From bi- + genderism; modelled on heterosexism. Coined in 2003.
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