misgender
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From mis- + gender, 1989.
Base: gender
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misgenders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misgendering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misgendered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misgendered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Gendering is the process of classifying and identifying the gender of other people, quickly and usually unconsciously, based on just a few visual and/or audio clues. This process of gendering privileges cisgendered people as few cisgendered people have had the experience of being misgendered. The experience of being misgendered is common for all transgendered people before they transition and for many transgendered people after they transition.
With a few notable exceptions[…]reports from the mainstream press willfully misgendered Manning while reporting this news.
Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.
Occasionally, of course, we misgender people by accident. As a child is transitioning from presenting as a boy to presenting as a girl, for example, it may take time for friends and adults around that child to remember to use the pronoun "she," no matter how loving, accepting, and well meaning they are.
Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]
Socially empowering bots are out there. For instance, @she_not_he is “a bot politely correcting Twitter users who misgender Caitlyn Jenner.”
A cis man who passes easily as male—meaning he was assigned male at birth, he identifies as male, he embodies his culture's ideals of masculinity comfortably, and he has never experienced being misgendered—is at the pinnacle of gender privilege and gender identity power.
Trump campaign adviser Jenna Ellis intentionally misgendered Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, on Twitter early Monday morning.
Stern (misgendered by Mansfield) is reckless and enthusiastic, and ‘flings [her] net wide; [she] brings it in teeming,[…]’
Taking people's pronouns seriously is important because it makes the difference between accepting or dismissing someone's existence. Have you ever noticed how we are usually very careful not to misgender a baby for fear of offending their parents (especially if the mistake is misgendering a baby boy for a girl)? When someone is pregnant, everybody is anxious to know the sex of the baby. Yet, many people in our society seem not to want to make an effort to use the "they" pronouns with someone who requests it. Isn't it a little strange?
gloss: To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Leonie was always, in fact, the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun, […]
Our first demonstration at the Canadian border—where we’d planned to test rumors about PWAs being denied entry into Canada by announcing we all had AIDS—fizzled when our bus entered the country without incident, save the late realization that our bilingual T-shirts had misgendered the virus—it's “le SIDA,” not “la SIDA”—causing a frantic scramble for sharpies and eyebrow pencils to correct the offending vowel.
Next is a list of misgendered words between the two languages:
Similar words with different genders […]
Related words: malgender
degender
Translations: