Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of pangendered.
So, yes, (James as) transsexual but really in a fantastical sense of pan-gendered, a body beyond (trans) anything we currently know" (Szymaszek, interview n.p.).
2015, Terence Diggory, Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, →ISBN3 more examples
As an individual, as a heterosexual cross-dresser who is not transsexual, I have often thought that the goal of my journey, the outcome of my own queerness, must be some sort of integration, some sort of coming together in a pan-gendered whole that will combine the best of both worlds.
1997, Bonnie Bullough, Vern L. Bullough, James Elias, Gender Blending, page 68Postbinarist, pan-gendered work has been done over the past decades by such cultural critics as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Griselda Pollock, and Barbara Johnson—all serious general influences here.
2012, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry, →ISBNFor example, Maya Ganesh relates the 'concept of the Omni-erotic and pan-gendered deity Shiva [who] appears through Hindu, Buddhist, and Tantric streams of philosophy and ritual' (2009, p.100) to her own identity development.
2015, Surya Monro, Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories, →ISBN
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