Revised Abstract I

Gender Query

Each person should have the right to choose between pink or blue tinted gender categories, as well as all the other hues of the palette. –Leslie Feinberg


Many people see normal gender identification as distinctly male or female and expect people to play out the gender roles that are set. People who fall outside of the standards set for women or men can be considered unusual and referred to as “Genderqueer”. The term "genderqueer" can be used as an adjective to refer to any people who transgress gender, regardless of their self-defined gender identity. Some people directly identify with this term and see it as empowering, while others think it is offensive. I am interested in how these people identify themselves, how they appear to the common onlooker, and their response to the term “Genderqueer”. I will obtain my information by surveying people who fall into this category as well as ones who do not. This is primarily a research project to help show people that set gender roles are not necessarily the case and that people are way more diverse than that.