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gendertrash

noun

Etymology

From gender + trash. The first known use was as the title of a transgender-interest zine published out of Toronto from 1993-1995. The first attested use as an independent word was in two magazine articles by Riki Wilchins in 1995.

  1. derived from *dóru✻ — “tree”
  2. derived from *þrakjaz✻ — “dirt”
  3. inherited from trasch
  4. compounded as gendertrash — “gender + trash”

Definitions

  1. People of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary or…

    People of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary or conventional conceptions of gender.

    • This not only serves no purpose and makes *you* look like an ugly person, it also […] lends legitimacy to the kind of thinking that leads the bigots to insist that we're *all* gendertrash.
    • In the most straightforward way, [Dorothy] Allison was responding to the typical question by a horrified liberal to gendertrash who likes rough trade: Honey, I got nothin' to hide.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gendertrash. 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