Etymology

ipso gender

Today it means: Of an intersex person: identifying with the sex they were medically assigned; having a gender which matches their assigned sex. Full definition →

Latin ipso
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  1. Latin · derived fromipso
  2. English todayipso gender

Coined by C. G. Costello in 2014. Latin ipso means "at the very same" (gender as they were assigned), compare ipso facto or ipso substitution.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.