gender-free

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender

   Of a person, agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.

   • Individuals holding these views challenge the existing Western binary and categorical sex-gender system, increasingly identifying as bigender, gender blender, or gender-free.
   • I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person.
2. 2

   Of a word, object, etc., acceptable for or available to any gender.

   • He got the idea of transforming the traditional sashiko — quilted-cotton worker's pants and jacket fabric — into a modern leisure fabric, a homegrown equivalent of denim, which became another early source of gender-free clothing.
   • The term ‘engineer’ is apparently a gender-free term - there is no single word meaning ‘female engineer’ - but it seems to contain an invisible male marking. ‘Nurse’ works in the opposite way, [...]
   • In the German, Buber often used the term Mensch, a gender-free term, which is best translated as person or human being. In contrast, the term Mann does refer to a male person.
3. 3

   Of a society, which does not define people on the basis of gender

   Of a society, which does not define people on the basis of gender; in which gender is irrelevant to people's lives and choices.

   • So once the notion of a gender-free society is clarified, there should be widespread agreement [...]
   • Many argue that we must build a gender-free world, that is, a world in which society does not define and organize all people on the basis of gender categories.

The neighborhood

• synonymagender
• synonymagendered
• antonymgenderedof objects
• antonymgender-specific
• neighborandrogynous
• neighborbigender
• neighborambigender
• neighborgenderqueer
• neighbortransgender
• neighborcisgender
• neighbormale
• neighborfemale
• neighbormasculine
• neighborfeminine