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misgendering

verb

Meaning

  1. To refer to (a person) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally; for example by calling a woman "son" or a boy "she".
  2. To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.
  3. The act of referring to somebody by the wrong gender.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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