Misgender

//mɪsˈd͡ʒɛndɚ// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally. transitive

    "Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers."

  2. 2
    To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word. transitive

    "Leonie was always, in fact, the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun, […]"

Example

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"16-year-old Brianna Ghey's death certificate will misgender her because she was considered too young to get a Gender Recognition Certificate. Both mainstream political parties opposed her right to get one."

Etymology

From mis- + gender, 1989.

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