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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gendersex en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚsɛks/ (US)

Etymology

From gender + sex.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
    • the technologies and histories of racial and colonial gendering that have established binary gendersex as one of the primary fault lines for securing and differentiating the national body 2022, Christopher Joseph Lee, “Transmedia Uprising”, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, →DOI:
    • Holm provides a contextualised analysis of two life stories by persons in trans or intersex(ed) positions who applied for the legal change of their gendersex status, as Holm innovatively names it. 2019, Riikka Taavetti, “From Present Trans and Intersex(ed) Politics to Past Embodied Experiences”, in Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran, →DOI:

Relateds

man · bigender · transgender · neuter · hermaphroditic · endosex · genderqueer · non-binary · androgyne · woman · hermaphrodite · kathoey · intersex · altersex · feminine · two-spirit · transsexual · masculine · legal gender · crossdresser · female · common · hijra · male

Translations (16)

nb kjønn (division of male, female and others) · ko 성별 (division of male, female and others) · gv keintys (division of male, female and others) · nl geslacht (division of male, female and others) · is kyn (division of male, female and others) · sk pohlavie (division of male, female and others) · fi sukupuoli (division of male, female and others) · fo kyn (division of male, female and others) · sv kön (division of male, female and others) · ja 性別 (division of male, female and others) · cmn 性別 /性别 (division of male, female and others) · et sugu (division of male, female and others) · el φύλο (division of male, female and others) · tr cinsiyet (division of male, female and others) · da køn (division of male, female and others) · de Geschlecht (division of male, female and others)