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gendersex

Syllables: gen·der·sexUK/ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/US/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚsɛks/

gendersex noun: sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.

Noun

gendersex (uncountable)

  1. Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
    • 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.2019, Riikka Taavetti, “From Present Trans and Intersex(ed) Politics to Past Embodied Experiences”, in Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran, →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 body2022, Christopher Joseph Lee, “Transmedia Uprising”, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, →DOI

Origin of gendersex

From gender + sex.

Questions about gendersex

What does gendersex mean?
Gendersex means sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
What part of speech is gendersex?
Gendersex is a noun.
How do you pronounce gendersex?
Gendersex is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/ (UK).

Words near gendersex in the dictionary

  1. genderqueers
  2. genders
  3. genderscape
  4. genderscapes
  5. Genderses
  6. gendersex
  7. genderspeak
  8. genderspecial
  9. genderspecials
  10. genderswap
  11. genderswapped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gendersex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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