Definitions
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- verb To not
gender or to reverse thegendering of.
Etymologies
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un- + gender
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Examples
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Not only do these three lines deliberately ungender her but simultaneously also ‘out’ another trans woman (Ms Browne’s flatmate Natasha Brentwood).
What price a trans woman’s life? In 1997 in London it was £500 2009
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And it does rather point up the stupidity of trying to ungender me when the insult then becomes “I can’t tell if she’s a man or a woman”.
Nurtameen? 2008
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And that person’s way of dealing with that fear is to ungender me.
Nurtameen? 2008
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And then to ungender us when we don’t pass as cis or out ourselves, anyway.
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