gynemimetic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- +‎ mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.[1]

Noun

gynemimetic (plural gynemimetics)

(dated, nonstandard, rare) A transfeminine individual or trans woman who has not had sex reassignment surgery.

Adjective

gynemimetic (not comparable)

(dated, nonstandard, rare) Transfeminine.
- 1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25, number 4, pages 392–403:
  In most large cities of the West there exists an unnamed gynemimetic community that corresponds to the social institution of hijras in India and xanith in Oman.

References

Money, John. “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”. Comprehensive Psychiatry 25, no 4 (1984). 392-403. DOI: 10.1016/0010-440X(84)90074-9.

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[Money-1] Money, John. “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”. Comprehensive Psychiatry 25, no 4 (1984). 392-403. DOI: 10.1016/0010-440X(84)90074-9.