bigenderism

Meaning

Noun

• The theory that society enforces a strict male-female gender binary, privileges masculinity and maleness over femininity and femaleness, and (when the theory is strictly construed) limits gender to a direct correspondence with assigned sex at birth.
• The state of being bigender; the state of having two (or multiple) genders simultaneously.

Origin

• From bi- + genderism; modelled on heterosexism. Coined in 2003.
• From bigender + -ism.