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English
Etymology
From gender + vague.
Adjective
gendervague (not comparable)
- (neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).
- 2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in Finn V. Gratton, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families (2019), page 15:
- Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence—being autistic doesn't cause my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender.
- 2019, "Acknowledgements", in Katie Steele & Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, unnumbered page:
- Julia Feliz—a gendervague, pansexual, Afro-Boricua (Puerto Rican)—created the flag design used in this image.
2021, “Contributors”, in Emily Paige Ballou, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Sharon daVanport, editors, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity, page 204:Lei Wiley-Mydske is an autistic and otherwise disabled mom, […] activist, artist, and gendervague writer from the Pacific Northwest.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gendervague.
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