gendersex

gendersex

English

Wikidata

Alternative forms

• gender/sex

Etymology

corresponding to gender +‎ sex.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndəsɛks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚsɛks/
• Hyphenation: gen‧der‧sex

Noun

gendersex (countable and uncountable, plural gendersexes)

1. sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine(man/male), feminine(woman/female) or others by sexual characteristics or social characteristics.
   • 2017, Marie-Louise Holm, Fleshing out the self‎, →ISBN, page 75:

     Following this logic, I define gendersex as consisting of an entanglement of concepts and materialities that co-construct each other in phenomena. Furthermore, similarly to how the Danish transdisciplinary feminist scholar Nina Lykke uses the term gender/sex, I use the term gendersex as a way of translating into English the meaning of the Danish word køn in the material of my analysis. In English, this would be translated into either sex or gender, but in Danish it entails both aspects and does not distinguish clearly between them (Lykke 2010).

   • 2018, Iwo Nord, “Routes to gender-affirming surgery”, in Body, Migration, Re/Constructive Surgeries, →ISBN, page 211:

     I use Holm’s (2017 : 75) term gendersex to denaturalize the separation of the material/biological and the discursive/social

     Iwo Nord is an author of chapter 12

   • 2019, Riikka Taavetti, “From Present Trans and Intersex(ed) Politics to Past Embodied Experiences”, in Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran, DOI:10.23980/sqs.89136:

     Holm provides a contextualised analysis of two life stories by persons in trans or intersex(ed) positions who applied for the legal change of their gendersex status, as Holm innovatively names it.

   • 2022, Christopher Joseph Lee, “Transmedia Uprising”, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, DOI:10.1215/23289252-9475607:

     the technologies and histories of racial and colonial gendering that have established binary gendersex as one of the primary fault lines for securing and differentiating the national body

Translations

division of male, female and others

Chinese: Mandarin: 性別／性别 (zh) (xìngbié) Danish: køn (da) n Dutch: geslacht (nl) n Estonian: sugu Faroese: kyn n Finnish: sukupuoli (fi) German: Geschlecht (de) n Greek: φύλο (el) n (fýlo) Icelandic: kyn (is) n Japanese: 性別 (ja) (せいべつ, seibetsu) Korean: 성별(性別) (ko) (seongbyeol) Manx: keintys m Norwegian: Bokmål: kjønn (no) n Turkish: cinsiyet (tr) Slovak: pohlavie (sk) n Swedish: kön (sv) n

See also

• (grammar) common, feminine, masculine, neuter
• (sex) female, male, hermaphroditic; man, woman, hermaphrodite, intersex, altersex, endosex
• genderqueer, bigender, non-binary, transgender, androgyne, crossdresser, hijra, kathoey, transsexual, two-spirit
• legal gender