Tomboy vs Genderfluid - What's the difference?
tomboy | genderfluid |
Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
* 2009 , Julia Serano, Whipping Girl (page 346)
* 2011 , Ellen Greenblatt, Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users (page 29)
As a noun tomboy
is a girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.As an adjective genderfluid is
not conforming to fixed gender roles.tomboy
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Antonyms
* girly girlSynonyms
* hoyden * romp * t-birdExternal links
* (wikipedia "tomboy") ----genderfluid
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Another way that one can be “transgressively gendered” is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid —i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.
- A slightly newer term, genderqueer is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid , who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.