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malgender

malgender verb: to insincerely or disparagingly gender an individual correctly, particularly to do so by referencing gender stereotypes (e.g. telling a trans man he is archetypically unhygienic).

Verb

malgender (third-person singular simple present malgenders, present participle malgendering, simple past and past participle malgendered)

  1. (neologism, transitive) To insincerely or disparagingly gender an individual correctly, particularly to do so by referencing gender stereotypes (e.g. telling a trans man he is archetypically unhygienic).

Forms of malgender

third-person singular presentmalgenders
present participlemalgendering
past participlemalgendered
pastmalgendered

Origin of malgender

From mal- + gender. First known use is by Tumblr blogger penisbagelbite in the April 2024 blog post " 'Affirmation' & Malgendering".

Questions about malgender

What does malgender mean?
Malgender means to insincerely or disparagingly gender an individual correctly, particularly to do so by referencing gender stereotypes (e.g. telling a trans man he is archetypically unhygienic).
What part of speech is malgender?
Malgender is a verb.
What is the past tense of malgender?
The past tense of malgender is malgendered.

Words near malgender in the dictionary

  1. malfunctioning
  2. malfunctionings
  3. malfunctions
  4. Malgache
  5. Malgaches
  6. malgender
  7. Malgham
  8. Malghum
  9. Malglish
  10. malgovernance
  11. malgovernment

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: malgender (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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