neurogender

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ gender.

Noun

neurogender (plural neurogenders)

  1. The gender of one's brain.
    • 1997, Nancy Ordover, Science Fictions: National Hygiene, Queer Anatomy, and Eugenic Sterilization‎, page 167:
      Murphy was concerned with the “cross gendered,” those whose “neurogender [gender/sex of the brain] is not the same as the morphological/physical/genital gender.
  2. A gender type that is linked to neurological factors.
    • 2019, Erin A. Vogel, Additive Behaviors‎, number 95, page 100:
      Includes “genderqueer/gender non-conforming”, “genderfluid”, “agender”, “nonbinary”, and other (eg, “neurogender”, “bigender”, “androgyne”, “two-spirit”, “questioning”)
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