Meanings
- uncountableThe xenogender of a person who identifies with or behaves like a cat.
The Florida catgender story isn't unique — it's just the start. We now have "nonbinary tree sprites" and kids changing their biology for social media likes.
2025, Conrad Riker, Subverted: How Marxist Ideology and the Left Hijacked the West2 more examples
We may also see risk with the growth in ideas like 'xenogender', a rather novel identity category that has emerged within some sexual and gender diverse communities where a person may identify with other species (or objects), such as 'catgender'. This obviously extends the notion of gender to a level most would probably consider absurd, and yet these gender identity categories have even — albeit temporarily — been incorporated within UK university 'pronoun guides'.
2024, Darren Langdridge, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change: A Dialectical Approach to Narratives of Tradition and Critique, page 100A remarkable number of youth in the region identify as catgender. They eat on the floor, nuzzle human companions, and expect teachers to use their correct pronouns, nya/nyan. There is also evidence of a thriving local community of Satanists.
2024, Ryan Fitzgibbon, A Great Gay Book
- not comparableOf a person, identifying as a cat.
Origin
Cite this entry
catgender. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catgender
“catgender.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catgender. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “catgender,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catgender.
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