Talk:genderswap

Has anyone ever seen this not be a binary swap between male and female? The entry seems possibly to be ignoring reality in order to be non-binary. Equinox ◑ 15:58, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Other definitions

As time allows I plan to work on better definitions; properly formatting; finding examples for noun, adjective, verb; etc. but if someone else gets to it before me I take no offense. What has me a little stuck at the moment is that possibly for these other senses they might be more commonly spelled "gender swap" with a space rather than as "genderswap," but they are also sometimes spelled the latter way without a space; I expect they're also found in hyphenated form. I'm not sure if that would necessitate a separate page or not and need to see if wiktionary addresses that issue somewhere.

1. A genre of fiction in which a character's biological sex is changed during the course of the story.
   • 1996 January 11, Mike Allegretto, “Transformation List Gender-Bender”, in rec.arts.sf.movies‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Gender Swap List Post #4, as of 1/7/96 The following is a list of published material, ie movies, tv, comics, etc, that involve gender change. This is only a list for stories where a physical change takes places, and does not included cross-dressing.

   • 2009, Emily Turner, “Scary Just Got Sexy”, in Supernatural.tv, editor, In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural, Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, →ISBN, pages 160-161:

     Genderswap is a term that describes the premise of its genre—in genderswap stories, the gender (or, more accurately, the physical sex) of a character is spontaneously “swapped.” […] In a story wherein Sam suddenly switches biological sex, for example, he may subsequently undergo a change in mannerisms, interests, and sexuality

   • 2020, Flourish Klink, and Rukmini Pande, Zina Hutton, and Lori Morimoto, “A Roundtable Discussion about the Cultures of Fandom on Tumblr.”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 174:

     genderswap fics (a term that can mean multiple things, but in this case stories in which a character somehow changes genitalia and secondary sex characteristics)

Synonyms

• TSF

1. A gamer adopting a character of a biological sex other than their own.
   • 2011, Vincent Cicchirillo, “Online Gaming: Demographics, Motivations, and Information Processing”, in Matthew S. Eastin, Terry Daugherty, Neal M. Burns, editors, Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption, Hershey PA: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 468:

     One unique aspect of online games that has not been discussed as a possible motivation is the ability to gender swap. Gender swapping refers to the phenomenon of 'playing a different gendered character than oneself.'

Шизомби (talk) 19:43, 5 May 2024 (UTC)