ext_7286 ([identity profile] catamorphism.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tim 2006-10-16 02:07 pm (UTC)

I should define what I mean by "genderqueer" here, which I'm using to refer to people who haven't done anything to change the physical characteristics of their sex, don't intend to, and identify as some gender identity that's neither female or male. If I think about the set of such people I've run into, more of them are people who were female-assigned at birth than male-assigned. So I do think of "genderqueer", in the sense I'm using it, as being more of a female thing than a male thing. Certainly the person whose experience I'm most familiar with is my own, and I'm a female-bodied genderqueer. And because of that, I wonder whether the specific need to identify as neither male or female is a response to the idea of woman-as-special-case. But I don't know whether I'm right in assuming that most genderqueers are female-assigned, and it would be hard to figure out if that's really true, since genderqueers don't really exist as a mainstream category yet.

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