autigender

comparative more autigender · superlative most autigender

1. neologismHaving a gender identity linked to one's autism.

   Yeah...I'm autistic and my experience of my gender is linked to my experience of autism, and so I identify as autigender.

   2021, Sabrina Symington, Coming Out, Again: Transition Stories, unnumbered page

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   Specifically, nonbinary and autigender people were more likely to use gender-neutral terms like “kid” or “person” instead of gendered terms like “boy” or “man.”

   2021, Kelly L. Coburn, "Spoken Narratives by Autistic Adults of Under-Represented Genders", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, pages 123-124

   Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.

   2022, Sarah Cavar, Alexandre Baril, “Disability”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities, page 85