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形容詞

postgender (not generally comparable, comparative more postgender, superlative most postgender)

1. (Having moved) beyond gender; not (any longer) gendered.
   • 2007, Helen Boyd, She's not the man I married: my life with a transgender husband, page 192:

     Gay and lesbian folks don't have a corner on the market — of course there are straight people who think about gender — but odds were better that our gay and lesbian friends were going to be a little more postgender in their thinking, […]

   • 2010, Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority, page 139:

     Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.

2. (of a marriage or couple) Which divides household labor equally or in a manner other than according to traditional gender roles.
   • 2002, Adie Nelson, Barrie Robinson, Gender in Canada, page 455:

     Traditional gender manifests itself among postgender dual-career couples in a common, but not universal, tendency for wives to hold higher standards for household cleanliness.

同意語

• (of a marriage, not divided by gender roles): posttraditional

反意語

• pregender

名詞

postgender (plural postgenders)

1. (rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.
   • 2001, Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide, volume 2, page 373:

     Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders, and automated teller machines,

   • 2001, Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community, page 204:

     Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

使用する際の注意点

• See the usage note at transgender regarding the use of this type of word as a noun.

参考

• postgenderism
• transgender, postsexual, transsexual
• androgyny