Citations:gendertrash

English citations of gendertrash

Noun: "(derogatory or humorous) people of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary and/or conventional conceptions of gender"

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• 1995, Riki Wilchins, "What's In A Name: The Politics of Gender Speak", Transgender Tapestry, Winter 1995, page 47:

  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.”

• 1995, Riki Wilchins, "Closets are for Clothes, NOT Transpeople", TV/TS Tapestry Journal, Issue 70, Winter 1995, page 29:

  Such events are enormous achievements, and make invaluable contributions to our community. In addition, I was grateful to discover the organizers could even accommodate a low-rent, gendertrash reject like me, trying to politicize the atmosphere.

• 1996 February 25, Dallas Denny, “Re: What is a Transexual?”, in alt.transgendered‎^[1] (Usenet):

  The emergence of a transgender identity does not deligitimize transsexuals, although it certain scares the hell out of people who have convinced themselves they are exceptional (and different from that *other* gendertrash) when they become legitimized.

• 1997, Riki Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 60:

  Within the category of those living as “women” are infertile women, women without wombs, women without breasts, women with XY chromosomes, women whose blood flows primarily with testosterone, hermaphroditic women, intersexed women with both genitals, transgendered women, stone butches and diesel dykes, passing women, incredibly hot drag kings, female-to-male preoperative transexuals, and even gendertrash rejects like me.

• 1998 November 5, Donna, “Re: I don't get it”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[2] (Usenet):

  I guess there is gendertrash, and then there is *real* gendertrash.

• 1998 November 5, Donna, “Re: I don't get it”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Gendertrash, genderqueer... Pick a label. To the rest of the 'normal' world, all of us here are gendertrash, you, me... The whole friggin lot of us. But, it would seem that some of us are 'trashier' than others. That I'm comfortable being trans and not needing to 'fix' anything seems to put me in a trashier subgroup that the more 'noble' gendertrash.

• 1998 November 10, Dale Elizabeth, “Re: What Changing One's Sex Really Means....”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[4] (Usenet):

  This not only serves no purpose and makes *you* look like an ugly person, it also (as Trina pointed out so well) lends legitimacy to the kind of thinking that leads the bigots to insist that we're *all* gendertrash.

• 1998 November 11, Donna Lynn Matthews, “Re: Separation of T*”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[5] (Usenet):

  Well, lessee now... Y'all seem to put yerselves up on some kinda pedistal^[sic] or sometin as bein the real thing far as women go. All the rest of us backwards-ass gendertrash just be play actin or sometin.

• 2008, Stephanie Schroeder, "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?", in That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore), unnumbered page:

  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.

• 2017, Riki Wilchins, Burn the Binary!: Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary, unnumbered page:

  I coined the term "genderqueer" back in the 1990s in an effort to glue together two nouns which seemed to me to describe an excluded and overlooked middle: those of us who were not only queer, but were so because we were the kind of gendertrash society rejected.

• 2021 August 25, Jim Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter‎^[6]:

  A year ago today I first came out as non-binary gendertrash.