gender-blind

adj
/ˈdʒɛndəˌblaɪnd/UK/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚˌblaɪnd/US

Etymology

From gender + blind, by analogy with color blind (“holding no prejudice based on skin color; not paying attention to skin color”).

  1. inherited from *blindaz
  2. inherited from *blind
  3. inherited from blind
  4. inherited from blynd
  5. compounded as gender-blind — “gender + blind

Definitions

  1. Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house…

    Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.

    • I note, however, no universal gender-blind pronoun is recommended. If we all use different third pronouns, they’ll become fourth, fifth, 200th pronouns, and clarity will be lost.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gender-blind. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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