genderbending adjective 1noun 1 adjective1 •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. noun1 •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. — 2000
