Gender detachment
Gender detachment is a term coined by sociologist Canton Winer, based on Winer's interviews with asexual people.[1] Gender-detached individuals do not feel that gender is a useful or relevant lens for understanding themselves. In other terms, they can be said to lack a gender identity. They may express a degree of apathy around gender or feel that gender is something externally imposed on them.
Winer observes that gender detachment poses a problem for models of gender which assume that everyone has a gender identity. Winer calls the belief that everyone has or should have a gender identity "compulsory gender".[1]
