fourth gender

English

Alternative forms

• fourth-gender (attributive)

Noun

fourth gender (countable and uncountable, plural fourth genders)

1. (anthropology) A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize four or more genders, which is neither cis male nor cis female; often, such societies consider trans men to constitute a third gender and trans women to constitute a fourth gender, or vice versa.

Related terms

• third gender