Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pertaining to something or someone that bends the line between the two sexes; also as n., an act of doing so.

1971		NY Times Theater Reviews 22 215: Gender Bending Backward In a year filled with men playing women and women playing men, the lesbian transsexual performance artist Kate Bornstein created a whole new sexual pretzel .
1977		New West 2: 14-20 8: These football players always want to dress up like women,’ objected an old hand at gender-bending.
1980		B. Larson Rock 51: In spite of his gender-bending ways , Sylvester admits that his professional singing career started on the California gospel circuit .
1986		W. Chapkis Beauty Secrets 137: Just because gender - bending is currently fashionable does not mean that the sexual revolution has triumphed.
1993		Australian (Sydney) 3 Apr. Rev. 23: If we look back over history [...] we see that gender bending and bisexuality, homosexuality and androgyny have all been considered part of the normal exploration of life [Simes:DLSS].
1999		Guardian Weekend 10 July 31: The gender-bending Performance was shelved for 18 months.
2000		‘Ruby Tuesday’ Mon Web En Rose 🌐 Genderbending I guess that is what I do these days. I don’t go out fully dressed, cause I haven’t got any winter-clothes, but I certainly send out mixed gender-signals.
2010		NYRB 23 Dec. 90/2: [T]he episodes of gender-bending are many and varied, most of them extremely funny.
2016		Times Times2 16 Dec. 🌐 The dame needs to find someone to pick on and, no gender-bending allowed here, it’s got to be a man.