genderbending

Etymology

From gender + bending.

genderbending means confounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of another sex or in a way that makes one's gender identity ambiguous. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.

adj

Confounding attempts to identity one's gender, especially by dressing in the clothes of another sex or in a way that makes one's gender identity ambiguous.“When the band broke up, Reed reinvented himself as a genderbending gutter poet and earned the nickname “The Godfather of Punk”, mostly by going out his way to subvert his fans' expectations on albums […]”

noun

The changing of a character's gender within a story.“There is one episode in the novel, however, where questions of racial masquerade intrude on the freewheeling genderbending of the main characters.”