Citations:gendervague

Adjective: "(neologism) having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism)"

 * 2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in Finn V. Gratton, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families (2019), page 15:
 * Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence—being autistic doesn't cause my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender.
 * 2016, JungJa Park Cardoso, "Negotiating and Navigating Invisible Food Deserts: An Exploratory Study on Foodways of Adults on the Autism Spectrum", dissertation submitted to City University of New York, page 244:
 * Daniel is a gendervague. They is [sic] an “Autistic” whose autism is “professionally documented” rather than being diagnosed as such. Because they believes that “Autism is not a disease, so the concept of "diagnosis" doesn't apply,” they did not answer or answered in an atypical way many of my questions that included the word, ‘diagnosis,’ except the question about whether a respondent was officially diagnosed, to which they answered yes.
 * 2017, Lydia X. Z. Brown, "Ableist Shame and Disruptive Bodies: Survivorship at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Disabled Existence", in Religion, Disability, and Interpersonal Violence (eds. Andy J. Johnson, J. Ruth Nelson, & Emily M. Lund), page 166:
 * The term gendervague, coined within the autistic community, references the phenomenon of gender nonconformity, with or without dysphoria, as dependent on or derivative from autistic or other neurodivergent experiences — not necessarily in a causal relationship but perhaps a closely co-constitutive one for those living at that intersection (Brown, 2016).
 * 2019, Finn V. Gratton, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families, page 14:
 * More recently, I've started referring to myself as gendervague, a term coined within the autistic community to refer to a specifically neurodivergent experience of trans/gender identity.
 * 2019, "Acknowledgements", in Katie Steele & Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, unnumbered page:
 * Julia Feliz—a gendervague, pansexual, Afro-Boricua (Puerto Rican)—created the flag design used in this image.
 * 2020, Dan Michael Fielding, "Queernormativity: Norms, values, and practices in social justice fandom", Sexualities, Volume 23, Issue 7:
 * In other cases, heteronormativity was made the villain by fans. For example, Holly, a sex-repulsed asexual aromantic gendervague female, explained that ‘the idea of being able to write both a support system and an internal/societal antagonist they [the queer characters] have to fight against is rather rewarding and actually helps me feel better about myself and my own identity and sexuality.’
 * 2021, "Contributors", in Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity (eds. Emily Paige Ballou, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, & Sharon daVanport), page 204:
 * Lei Wiley-Mydske is an autistic and otherwise disabled mom, wife, neurodiversity librarian, the Community Outreach Coordinator at AWN Network, activist, artist, and gendervague writer from the Pacific Northwest.
 * 2021, Lilith Green, "To Be Or Not To Be: Trans And Gender-Diverse Identity Negotiation In Caregiving Institutions", thesis submitted to the University of Memphis, page 62:
 * In what is now termed as ‘gendervague’ by the autistic community, it is believed that being transgender does not have a causal relationship to autism, but autism does influence how a person understands their gender.
 * 2021, Lieke Hettinga, "Appearing Differently: Disability and Transgender Embodiment in Contemporary Euro-American Visual Cultures", dissertation submitted to Central European University Private University, page 165:
 * Similarly, neurodiversity activist Lydia X. Z. Brown refers to themself as “gendervague” and they explain that they cannot “separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence.”
 * 2021, Alyssa Hillary, "I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguisability, and (Non)optimal Outcome", in Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations (eds. Chris Bobel & Samantha Kwan), page 112:
 * I am nonbinary, gendervague.
 * 2021, Taylor René Kielsgard & Lydia X. Z. Brown, "Trans, Autistic and BIPOC: Living at the Intersections of Autism, Race and Gender Diversity", in Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-Binary People: Research, Practice and Experience (ed. Marianthi Kourti), page 73:
 * Today, when thinking about gender, it's more accurate to say that I'm agender or genderless than anything else – gendervague (e.g. Brown, 2019; Neumeier, 2015) (meaning being autistic and otherwise neurodivergent shapes my relationship to gender),