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BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY 

ALITO, J., dissenting
Appendix A to opinion of ALITO, J. 

1781  COWPER  Expost.  415  Sin,  that  in  old  time  Brought  fire  from  heav’n,  the  sex-abusing 

crime. 1876 HARDY Ethelberta xxxvii, You cannot have celebrity and sex-privilege both. 1887 

Jrnl. Educ. No. 210. 29 If this examination craze is to prevail, and the sex-abolitionists are to 

have their way. 1889 GEDDES & THOMSON Evol. Sex 91 Very commonly the sex-cells originate 

in the ectoderm and ripen there. 1894 H. DRUMMOND Ascent of Man 317 The sex-distinction 

slowly gathers definition. 1897 J. HUTCHINSON in Arch. Surg. VIII. 230 Loss of Sex Function. 
Sex (seks), v. [f. SEX  sb.] trans. To determine the sex of, by

anatomical examination; to label as male or female.

1884 GURNEY Diurnal Birds Prey 173 The specimen is not sexed, neither is the sex noted 

on the drawing. 1888 A. NEWTON  in Zoologist Ser. 111. XII. 101 The .. barbarous phrase of 

‘collecting a specimen’ and then of ‘sexing’ it. 

Concise  Oxford  Dictionary  of  Current  English  1164 
(5th ed. 1964): 

sĕx, n. Being male or female or hermaphrodite (what is its 
~?;  ~  does  not  matter;  without  distinction  of  age  or  ~),
whence ~’LESS a., ~’lėssNESS n., ~’Y2 a., immoderately con-
cerned with ~; males or females collectively (all ranks & 
both  ~es;  the  fair,  gentle,  softer,  weaker,  ~,  &  joc.  the  ~, 
women; the sterner ~, men; is the fairest of her ~); (attrib.)
arising from difference, or consciousness, of ~ (~ antago-
nism, ~ instinct, ~ urge); ~ appeal, attractiveness arising 
from difference of ~. [f. L sexus –ūs; partly thr. F] 

Random  House  Dictionary of the English Language 
1307 (1966): 

sex (seks), n. 1. The fact or character of being either male 
or  female:  persons  of  different  sex.  2.  either  of  the  two 
groups of persons exhibiting this character: the stronger 
sex; the gentle sex. 3. the sum of the structural and func-
tional differences by which the male and female are dis-
tinguished, or the phenomena or behavior dependent on
these  differences.  4.  the  instinct  or  attraction  drawing
one sex toward another, or its manifestation in life and