How to Use genderqueer in a Sentence

genderqueer

adjective
  • People who use they/them or other genderqueer pronouns may have a hard time with this.
    — Lex Byrd, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Schneider's Twitter is full of comments from grateful parents of trans and genderqueer children, thanking her for being a role model.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Query was re-elected to the statehouse as New Hampshire’s first genderqueer representative by a slim margin of 34 votes.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Discwoman exclusively represents cis women, trans women, and genderqueer artists; most of whom are people of color.
    — Rachel Hahn, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2021
  • For example, Louise Snodgrass is hoping to become the first genderqueer state legislator in South Dakota.
    — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2020
  • All the while, Park slips effortlessly into Hedwig’s wry narcissism and suppressed anxieties on a genderqueer journey of love, loss and self-acceptance.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Transgender males, nonbinary or genderqueer and transgender females considered and attempted suicide at the highest rates.
    — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 4 May 2022
  • An 18-year old living in Eagle Mountain, Barber identifies as genderqueer and nonbinary and uses he/him pronouns as well as they/them.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Genderfluid, genderqueer and androgynous identities accounted for about a quarter of respondents each.
    — Steven Vargas, USA TODAY, 13 July 2021
  • Pyle, who identifies as genderqueer lesbian and uses they/them pronouns, says the disparagement was devastating, triggering an eating disorder and other trauma.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2021
  • Berkley Romance publishing is largely a woman's game, but that designation excludes the men, non-binary, and genderqueer individuals who are also avid readers and creators.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 June 2022
  • Kye Rowan created the nonbinary pride flag in 2014 to represent nonbinary people who don’t feel represented by the genderqueer flag.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The number of young people who are gender-diverse — including transgender, nonbinary and genderqueer — may be significantly higher than previously thought, according to a new study.
    — Dan Avery, NBC News, 21 May 2021
  • The sheer conversation-starting daring of Ducournau’s film could secure it a shortlist space on swagger and volume alone, but plenty of voters will be repelled by the Neon release’s genderqueer themes and visceral presentation.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Several major characters played by non-professionals include genderqueer Tatín, in real life from a neighbouring village to Atotonilco, who takes on the fictional role of the owner of a thriving hairdressing salon.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Jan. 2022
  • More people than ever before who openly identify as genderqueer and nonbinary ran for office — 13 candidates — and 31 percent of them won, according to Victory Fund data.
    — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Twelve percent of students in the survey identified as nonheterosexuals and 2 percent as a gender minority — either nonbinary, genderqueer, agender, transgender or noncisgender.
    — NBC News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The Dawson's Creek alum also requested support for Gender Infinity, which provides services to transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people and their families.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Jason Walker, a genderfluid and genderqueer person running for County Committee in Brooklyn and who was a plaintiff in the case, says there is a massive amount of pressure demanding conformity in presentation, speech, and engagement as a candidate.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 23 June 2020
  • The other eight interchangeable flags represent lesbians, bisexuals, genderqueer individuals, pansexuals, asexuals, agender and intersex individuals, plus there’s the flag designed by Daniel Quasar, also known as the Progress Flag.
    — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 7 June 2021

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