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meta-gender en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of metagender.
    alt of metagender
    • A still more nuanced gender-system exists in Sulawesi, in the Indonesian archipelago, where among the Bugis people there are “three sexes (female, male, intersex), four genders (women, men, calabai [false woman], and calatai [false man], and a fifth meta-gender group, the bissu [literally 'transvestite priest,' but in fact hermaphroditic]” (Graham, 2001). 2012, David Buchbinder, Studying Men and Masculinities, →ISBN:
    • Some students would be homosexual, some trans-gender, but Mr. Dame suspected that Joey was one of the occasional still-confused youngsters of meta-gender: always outside any identifiable boundary and stuck being uncomfortable in their own skin. 2014, Jason Miller, Anisha Datta, Mr. Dame Among the Pages: An Uncommon Guide to Common Literature, →ISBN:
    • The Bugis, an Indigenous Indonesian ethnic group, recognize three sexes, four genders, and a meta-gender. 2016, Lasara Firefox Allen, Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality, →ISBN:

Forms

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meta-genders Number=Plur lexicographic