catgender
adjEtymology From cat + gender.
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Of a person, identifying as a cat.
catgender
nounEtymology From cat + gender.
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The xenogender of a person who identifies with or behaves like a cat.
- We may also see risk with the growth in ideas like 'xenogender', a rather novel identity category that has emerged within some sexual and gender diverse communities where a person may identify with other species (or objects), such as 'catgender'. This obviously extends the notion of gender to a level most would probably consider absurd, and yet these gender identity categories have even — albeit temporarily — been incorporated within UK university 'pronoun guides'.2024, Darren Langdridge, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change: A Dialectical Approach to Narratives of Tradition and Critique, page 100:
- A remarkable number of youth in the region identify as catgender. They eat on the floor, nuzzle human companions, and expect teachers to use their correct pronouns, nya/nyan. There is also evidence of a thriving local community of Satanists.2024, Ryan Fitzgibbon, A Great Gay Book:
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- The Florida catgender story isn't unique — it's just the start. We now have "nonbinary tree sprites" and kids changing their biology for social media likes.2025, Conrad Riker, Subverted: How Marxist Ideology and the Left Hijacked the West: