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gender-inclusive

gender-inclusive adjective: pertaining to or applicable to all genders; not restricted by gender; gender-neutral.

Adjective

gender-inclusive (comparative more gender-inclusive, superlative most gender-inclusive)

  1. Pertaining to or applicable to all genders; not restricted by gender; gender-neutral.
    • In May, they voted unanimously to stop using the word “women” when talking about people who get pregnant, so as not to exclude trans men. […] A Change.org petition asks naral and Planned Parenthood to adopt similarly gender-inclusive language.2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker

Forms of gender-inclusive

comparativemore gender-inclusive
superlativemost gender-inclusive

Origin of gender-inclusive

From gender + inclusive.

Questions about gender-inclusive

What does gender-inclusive mean?
Gender-inclusive means pertaining to or applicable to all genders; not restricted by gender; gender-neutral.
What part of speech is gender-inclusive?
Gender-inclusive is an adjective.

Words near gender-inclusive in the dictionary

  1. gender-flipped
  2. gender-flipping
  3. gender-flips
  4. gender-fluid
  5. gender-free
  6. gender-inclusive
  7. gender-neutral
  8. gender-neutrality
  9. gender-neutralize
  10. gender-neutralized
  11. gender-neutralizes

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