neurogender

English

From neuro- +‎ gender.

neurogender (plural neurogenders)

The gender of one's brain.
- 1997, Nancy Ordover, Science Fictions: National Hygiene, Queer Anatomy, and Eugenic Sterilization‎^[1], page 167:
  Murphy was concerned with the “cross gendered,” those whose “neurogender [gender/sex of the brain] is not the same as the morphological/physical/genital gender.
A gender type that is linked to neurological factors.
- 2019, Erin A. Vogel, Additive Behaviors‎^[2], number 95, page 100:
  Includes “genderqueer/gender non-conforming”, “genderfluid”, “agender”, “nonbinary”, and other (eg, “neurogender”, “bigender”, “androgyne”, “two-spirit”, “questioning”)
- 2020, Maxfield Sparrow, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN:
  [page 82:] Neurogenders are genders specific to neurodivergent people whose experience of gender relates to their neurotype […]
  [page 84:] […] So, back to me and neurogenders.
  [page 86:] If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.

neurogender (comparative more neurogender, superlative most neurogender)

(neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).
- 2020, endever corbin, “I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related”, in Maxfield Sparrow, editor, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words‎^[3], page 86:
  If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.
- 2022, Sarah Cavar, Alexandre Baril, “Disability”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities‎^[4], page 85:
  Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.