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Clocking klók ing

The word "clocking" has a traditional definition of measuring time to traverse a measured course. In current popular usage, "clocking" may refer to the act of presuming gender identity due to visual or other cues. "Double-take" when an individual fails to pass as a typical gender. In transgendered community, clocking refers to identifying an individual as being transgendered, or as failing to pass as their chosen gender. Generally negative experience of being recognized or presumed to be a gender other than that which you self-identify as. Clocking may also refer to recognizing someone as being Lesbian, Gay, or bisexual. Related to "outing".

(Eyre, de Guzman, Donovan, & Boissiere, 2004). ‘Hormones is not magic wands’ Ethnography of a Transgender scene in Oakland, California