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)

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

Adjective

gynemimetic (not comparable)

1. (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.

See also

• gynemimesis
• gynemimetophilia
• andromimetic
• andromimesis
• transgender
• trans woman

References

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.