attack helicopter

plural attack helicopters

1. governmentAn armed helicopter with the offensive capability of engaging ground targets such as enemy infantry, military vehicles, and fortifications.First known use 1950s
2. InternetderogatoryhumorousneologismoffensiveA fictitious gender assigned or suggested in quips, used to dismiss non-binary gender identities, and sometimes also transness in general.First known use 2014

   'I identify as an attack helicopter' is a regular dismissal of non-binary identities; hearing this can be a weekly occurrence. The support of other non-binary people and bibliotherapy of good non-binary sources can be a remedy to this.

   2019, Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 59

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   […] but that wasn't “inclusive” enough, so now the gender listing isn't a checkbox with either “male” or “female” — it's a fill-in-the-blank where you can list anything from peanut butter to an attack helicopter as your gender. […]

   2018, Mark Dice, Liberalism: Find a Cure, Mark Dice, →ISBN

   […] going to be spending a fair amount of time waiting like a twit in a cosmetic store while your wife / girlfriend / cis-gender / attack helicopter reads every damn label on every damn blusher, or pillar of lipstick, or whatever it is.

   2019, Andrew Mackay, The Hunger Diaries, or: How to Lose Weight Fasting and Eating Well, Chrome Valley Books