gender-neutralize

English

Etymology

From gender-neutral +‎ -ize.

Verb

gender-neutralize (third-person singular simple present gender-neutralizes, present participle gender-neutralizing, simple past and past participle gender-neutralized)

1. (transitive) To render (something) gender-neutral.
   • 2015 October 8, Soraya Chemaly, “Today's Nobel Prize in Literature is a Win for Humanity”, in Time‎^[1]:

     J.K. Rowling, among the most notable women to have gender-neutralized their names, is part of a very long tradition that includes the Bronte sisters (aka, the Bell Brothers), Louisa May Alcott (B.A. Evans), […].

   • 2024, Luvell Anderson, Ernie Lepore, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, page 313:

     If we're going to gender-neutralize some parts of English, why don't we just gender-neutralize everything?