gender bending

gender bending

1. adjective Causing a change in the sex assignment of a person or animal. This meaning can be considered imprecise especially in technical use due to conflating gender and sex. Often hyphenated. Scientists are developing a gender-bending chemical to induce artificial changes in the sex of mosquitoes.
2. adjective Assuming the roles, appearance, or manner associated with another gender. Often hyphenated. This novel features a gender-bending protagonist who, at various stages in the story, moves between gender identities.
3. noun The discourse or practice of challenging, denying, or exploring the borders or limitations of gender identity by various means. Some of the leading academics in gender bending are gathering this week for a summit on transgender rights.
See also: bend, gender
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • spastic
  • bulletproof
  • as (something) as the next man/woman/person
  • as as the next man
  • gonzo
  • man to man
  • man-to-man
  • appropriate for
  • sweet
  • sweeter
References in periodicals archive
To celebrate the release of BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON - in which Martin Lawrence does a little gender bending in his fat suit for the third time - we are offering FOUR lucky readers the chance to win a bumper pack of film-related goodies.
New York, Jan 15 (ANI): Media mogul Oprah Winfrey is apparently all set to add Chaz Bono's gender bending documentary to her new OWN network lineup.
Topics include gender in Aegean art; applications of feminism to Greek archaeology; recent approaches to gender in Cypriot prehistory; time, women, identity, and maintenance activities in the Argaric communities of southeast Iberia; gender bending in Knossos; gender choices in Mycenaean terracotta figurines; tentative identification of the Minoan linear A sign for "woman;" construction of male youth and gender in Aegean art; gender metaphors of social stratigraphy in pre-linear B Crete; the iconography of the bared breast in Aegean Bronze Age art; and the contribution of women archaeologists to Aegean studies.
A STORM has erupted at the African Women's Championships with rivals accusing Equatorial Guinea of gender bending the rules by fielding two men.
She's a fashionable lesbian comedian whose performance credits also include gender bending, fire dancing and American tribal belly dancing.
Dulac prompted the gender bending by disabling a key gene in the vomeronasal organ, also called Jacobson's organ.
BABY boys are being harmed by "gender bending" chemicals in thousands of products, say scientists.
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Mindful of the Indiana Jones tales, but in a modern gender bending context (we've come more than just a long way), fans of romantic suspense in an exotic locale will cherish this novel and want more from the von Brutten associates.
Blacker uses gender bending to explore the dynamics between adolescents of both sexes and shows his readers that walking in the other guy's, or gal's, shoes is one of the best ways to understand each other.
Through a model sewage treatment plant at the college, researchers discovered a 'gender bending' occurrence where treated estrogen compound in sewage resulted in a feminization of young fish.
Gender bending is just one device in Turner's repertoire of sensations.
People frequently pretend they are a different race, and changing sex is a relatively well-known phenomenon called "gender bending" that 40 percent of all users have engaged in, according to a recent study published in Information, Communication and Society.
Izzard's comedy is so intelligent, gracefully structured, and kindhearted that his trademark gender bending ("executive transvestite") is just a cherry on the cake.
Analysis of government data on pesticide residues shows that the "gender bending" chemical has also been discovered in a variety of fruit and vegetables including apples, peas, mushrooms, pears, tomatoes, yams, peaches, nectarines and oranges, according to Friends of the Earth.