Meaning of gendertrash | Babel Free

Definitions

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

derogatory, humorous, uncountable

Examples

“From this viewpoint, transgendered bodies and genders are that outside; and it is precisely by discarding us as “gendertrash” if you will, by stigmatizing us or delegitimating us off the grid as merely “aberrant” or “deviant” or (Virginia Prince here) “defective” or “pathological,” which enables the binary grid to continue to appear as immaculate, uncontaminated, and “natural.””

“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.”

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