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Gender detachment is a term coined by sociologist Canton Winer, based on Winer's interviews with asexual people.<ref name=":0">Winer, C. (2025). Does Everyone Have a Gender? Compulsory Gender, Gender Detachment, and Asexuality. ''Socius'', ''11''. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251339382</nowiki> (Original work published 2025)</ref> 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. | Gender detachment is a term coined by sociologist Canton Winer, based on Winer's interviews with asexual people.<ref name=":0">Winer, C. (2025). Does Everyone Have a Gender? Compulsory Gender, Gender Detachment, and Asexuality. ''Socius'', ''11''. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251339382</nowiki> (Original work published 2025)</ref> 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".<ref name=":0" /> | 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".<ref name=":0" /> | ||