GENDER BENDER EXPLAINED

1. A gender bender (slang: one who genderfucks) is a person who discords, or "bends", expected genderroles. Gender bending is sometimes a form of social activism undertaken in response to assumptions, over-generalizations about genders, or transphobia.

    A gender bender (slang: one who genderfucks) is a person who discords, or "bends", expected gender roles. Gender bending is sometimes a form of social activism undertaken in response to assumptions, over-generalizations about genders, or transphobia. Some gender benders identify with the gender assigned them at birth, but "challenge" the norms of that gender throughandrogynous behavior and atypical gender roles. Gender benders may also self-identify as trans or genderqueer, feeling that the gender assigned to them at their birth is an inaccurate or incomplete description of themselves. However, many trans people do not consider themselves "gender benders".
   
   Genderbending may be political, stemming from the identity politics movements of the 1950s and 1960s, a guiding principle of which is the idea that the personal is political. In his 1974 article, Genderfuck and Its Delights, Christopher Lonc explained his motivation for performing genderfuck: "I want to criticize and poke fun at the roles of women and of men too. I want to try and show how not-normal I can be. I want to ridicule and destroy the whole cosmology of restrictive sex roles and sexual identification."