gender bender

[ jen-der ben-der ]

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noun

Slang: Often Offensive. a person, as a crossdresser or transgender person, whose gender expression blurs differences between various sexual orientations and gender identities.
something that challenges traditional societal norms related to gender:
Women play all the roles in this gender bender of a play.

gender-bender

noun

informal.
a person who adopts an androgynous style of dress, hair, make-up, etc
a male-male or female-female adaptor, used esp for computer hardware

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gender bender¹

First recorded in 1980–85

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Example Sentences

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Now with chemo side effects, “I’m gonna end up looking like the Last Airbender. Or the fattest Air Gender Bender.”

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Rose, who is trans, is lovingly called “the Gender Bender.”

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Feeding pizza to fans from the stage before opening a show for Alice Bag, Kathleen Hanna and Terri Gender Bender might sound like a feminist punk fantasy, but for Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries it’s one slice in a long history of living the DIY dream.

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"Gender bender, cis-tem offender," rapped Bimini Bon Boulash in the 2021 season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

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For two weeks in El Paso, Teri Gender Bender was having an emergency.

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gender-affirming care gender binary

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