gendersex

English

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Etymology

gender +‎ sex.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚsɛks/
• Hyphenation: gen‧der‧sex

Noun

gendersex (uncountable)

2. Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
   • 2019, Riikka Taavetti, “From Present Trans and Intersex(ed) Politics to Past Embodied Experiences”, in Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran, →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.

   • 2022, Christopher Joseph Lee, “Transmedia Uprising”, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, →DOI:

     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

Translations

division of male, female and others

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性別／性别 (zh) (xìngbié)

• Danish: køn (da) n
• Dutch: geslacht (nl) n
• Estonian: sugu
• Faroese: kyn n
• Finnish: sukupuoli (fi)
• German: Geschlecht (de) n
• Greek: φύλο (el) n (fýlo)
• Icelandic: kyn (is) n
• Japanese: 性別 (ja) (せいべつ, seibetsu)
• Korean: 성별(性別) (ko) (seongbyeol)
• Manx: keintys m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjønn (no) n

• Slovak: pohlavie (sk) n
• Swedish: kön (sv) n
• Turkish: cinsiyet (tr)

See also

• (grammar) common, feminine, masculine, neuter
• (sex) female, male, hermaphroditic; man, woman, hermaphrodite, intersex, altersex, endosex
• genderqueer, bigender, non-binary, transgender, androgyne, crossdresser, hijra, kathoey, transsexual, two-spirit
• legal gender