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Effeminacy or male femininity [1] [2] is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. [3] These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women.
Estrogen is taken to feminize and can result in less body hair, bigger breasts, and other feminine traits. HRT is one of many therapies to help trans and GNC people feel at home in their bodies.
Gender conventions play a large role in attributing masculine and feminine characteristics to a fundamental biological sex. [160] Socio-cultural codes and conventions, the rules by which society functions, and which are both a creation of society as well as a constituting element of it, determine the allocation of these specific traits to the ...
Genderfluid [4] [8] [3] [5] can be defined as a gender identity that is "at times more masculine or feminine, and at times feeling more like a man or woman." [ 26 ] : 102 Genderflux [ 8 ]
Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior is a book by gay author Tim Bergling, [1] published in 2001, that investigates why some gay men are more masculine than others and why society finds effeminate men objectionable. [2] The neologism sissyphobia designates the fear or hatred of effeminate men, pejoratively called sissies.
Gender is generally conceived as a set of characteristics or traits that are associated with a certain biological sex (male or female). The characteristics that generally define gender are referred to as masculine or feminine. In some cultures, gender is not always conceived as binary, or strictly linked to biological sex.
Bell, Weinberg, and Hammersmith (1981, 188) reported that half of their man homosexual subjects practiced gender-inappropriate behaviour in childhood. Among their heterosexual men, the rate of noncompliance was 25 percent. Saghir and Robins (1973, 18) found that one-third of their gay man respondents conformed to gender role dictates.
However, the feminine traits people are attracted to vary. “Some gynosexual individuals may be drawn to the physical aspects of femininity, such as feminine features or expressions of femininity ...