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gender

[jen-der] / ˈdʒɛn dər /
NOUN
grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness
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They kept the gender "a surprise", but told friends and family their happy news and spent months preparing their home for the new arrival.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

“There is a real deep set commitment,” she said, assuring her audience that statistics show “young men are out-attending young women” and it’s “the widest gender gap in 25 years.”

From Salon • May 4, 2026

Facing opposition from her family over her gender identity, she left home and built a life within the transgender community.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

They worked to exclude religious schools anyway by forbidding participants from discriminating based on religion, sexual orientation or gender identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

A retired US Army sergeant named Jamie Shupe receives permission from an Oregon court to legally change their gender to nonbinary, becoming the first US person to do so.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater



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