gynemimesis

English

Etymology

From gyne- ‎ mimesis. Literally “female imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

Noun

gynemimesis (uncountable)

1. (dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
   • 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:

     Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The corresponding terms that apply to the female are andromimesis and andromimetophile.

See also

• gynemimetic
• gynemimetophilia
• andromimetic
• andromimesis
• transgender
• trans woman