Citations:gendertrash

Noun: "(derogatory or humorous) people of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary and/or conventional conceptions of gender"

 * 1995, Riki Wilchins, "What's In A Name: The Politics of Gender Speak", Transgender Tapestry, Winter 1995, page 47:
 * From this viewpoint, transgendered bodies and genders are that outside; and it is precisely by discarding us as “gendertrash” if you will, by stigmatizing us or delegitimating us off the grid as merely “aberrant” or “deviant” or (Virginia Prince here) “defective” or “pathological,” which enables the binary grid to continue to appear as immaculate, uncontaminated, and “natural.”
 * 1995, Riki Wilchins, "Closets are for Clothes, NOT Transpeople", TV/TS Tapestry Journal, Issue 70, Winter 1995, page 29:
 * Such events are enormous achievements, and make invaluable contributions to our community. In addition, I was grateful to discover the organizers could even accommodate a low-rent, gendertrash reject like me, trying to politicize the atmosphere.
 * 1997, Riki Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 60:
 * Within the category of those living as “women” are infertile women, women without wombs, women without breasts, women with XY chromosomes, women whose blood flows primarily with testosterone, hermaphroditic women, intersexed women with both genitals, transgendered women, stone butches and diesel dykes, passing women, incredibly hot drag kings, female-to-male preoperative transexuals, and even gendertrash rejects like me.
 * 2008, Stephanie Schroeder, "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?", in That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore), unnumbered page:
 * In the most straightforward way, [Dorothy] Allison was responding to the typical question by a horrified liberal to gendertrash who likes rough trade: Honey, I got nothin' to hide.
 * 2017, Riki Wilchins, Burn the Binary!: Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary, unnumbered page:
 * I coined the term "genderqueer" back in the 1990s in an effort to glue together two nouns which seemed to me to describe an excluded and overlooked middle: those of us who were not only queer, but were so because we were the kind of gendertrash society rejected.
 * 2008, Stephanie Schroeder, "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?", in That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore), unnumbered page:
 * In the most straightforward way, [Dorothy] Allison was responding to the typical question by a horrified liberal to gendertrash who likes rough trade: Honey, I got nothin' to hide.
 * 2017, Riki Wilchins, Burn the Binary!: Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary, unnumbered page:
 * I coined the term "genderqueer" back in the 1990s in an effort to glue together two nouns which seemed to me to describe an excluded and overlooked middle: those of us who were not only queer, but were so because we were the kind of gendertrash society rejected.
 * I coined the term "genderqueer" back in the 1990s in an effort to glue together two nouns which seemed to me to describe an excluded and overlooked middle: those of us who were not only queer, but were so because we were the kind of gendertrash society rejected.