gender minority
English
Noun
gender minority (countable and uncountable, plural gender minorities)
- A noncisgender (i.e. transgender or non-binary) person, or noncisgender people collectively. (Also used attributively.)
- 2008, Sheri R. Levy, Melanie Killen, Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood (Oxford University Press, →ISBN), page 71:
- Anecdotal evidence suggests that this discomfort occurs when children are a gender minority as well. For example, one colleague reported that when her son was given a choice of making pancakes or building a birdhouse as a group activity, he said explicitly, "I really want to make pancakes, but there are no other boys making pancakes, and I don't want to be the only boy."
- 2016, Matthew D. Skinta, Aisling Curtin, Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities (New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN):
- In addition, the process of coming out as a gender minority may or may not be related to sexual orientation, and the concept may have vastly different meanings and applications in the gender minority (GM) community.
- 2017, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, K. Nikki Barefoot, LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities (Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN), page 258:
- There are different types of surgeries that may be specific to the surgeon performing the surgery or related to the size of a gender minority person's chest. A double incision procedure with nipple grafts is the most common procedure ...
- 2008, Sheri R. Levy, Melanie Killen, Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood (Oxford University Press, →ISBN), page 71:
Synonyms
- GM (abbreviation)
Coordinate terms
- sexual minority (SM)
- SGM (“sexual and gender minority”)
Translations
noncisgender person(s)
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