pangender

See also: pan-gender

English

Alternative forms

• pan-gender

Etymology

From pan- +‎ gender.

Adjective

pangender (not comparable)

1. Encompassing or including all genders.
   • 1988, Catherine Lutz, Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll & Their Challenge to Western Theory, University of Chicago Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 234:

     These critiques distort Gilligan's thesis, it seems to me; she can be read as arguing that the morality of women is currently undervalued culturally and as calling for its reintegration into pangender morality, not for its use as a universal standard.

   • 1996, Gaylyn Studler, This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

     On one level, these changes many have served as a defensive maneuver to tone down some of the actor's pangender sexual magnetism and the homoeroticized responses associated with him as a male theatrical idol.

   • 2002, James Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli, My life in the NYPD: Jimmy the Wags‎^[1], Onyx, published 2002, →ISBN:

     Then came the tidal wave of drugs, specifically heroin, and what had once been a haven for male alcoholics became a pangender hole-in-the-wall hideout for depraved junkies.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pangender.
2. (LGBTQ, of a person) Identifying with all genders.
   • 2012, Alessandra Robertson, "Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 14:

     Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender.

   • 2012, Harrison Vaporciyan, "Tumbling into Trouble", The Oracle (Stratford High School, Houston, Texas), Volume 41, Issue 4, 16 November 2012, page 8:

     Just don't be surprised if you meet someone who identifies as a "non-binary neutrois pangender genderpunk autistic aspiequeer queer lithsexual punk anti-kyriarchist anarchist."

   • 2014 February 25, Aysha Mahmood, “Media companies take a more progressive stance on gender”, in The Daily Campus, volume 120, number 92, University of Connecticut, page 4:

     Ranging from pangender to genderqueer and even intersex, the choices Facebook has included accurately reflects the diversity and differences of this day and age.

See also

• omnigender, multigender, polygender