Meanings
- uncountableSex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
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
2022, Christopher Joseph Lee, “Transmedia Uprising”, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, →DOI1 more example
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.
2019, Riikka Taavetti, “From Present Trans and Intersex(ed) Politics to Past Embodied Experiences”, in Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 性別 /性别
- 性別 /性别 (xìngbié)division of male, female and others
Danish køn
- køndivision of male, female and others
Dutch geslacht
- geslachtdivision of male, female and others
Estonian sugu
- sugudivision of male, female and others
Finnish sukupuoli
- sukupuolidivision of male, female and others
German Geschlecht
- Geschlechtdivision of male, female and others
Greek φύλο
- φύλο (fýlo)division of male, female and others
Icelandic kyn
- kyndivision of male, female and others
Japanese 性別
- 性別 (seibetsu)division of male, female and others
Korean 성별
- 성별 (seongbyeol)division of male, female and others
Norwegian Bokmål kjønn
- kjønndivision of male, female and others
Slovak pohlavie
- pohlaviedivision of male, female and others
Swedish kön
- köndivision of male, female and others
Turkish cinsiyet
- cinsiyetdivision of male, female and others
Cite this entry
gendersex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gendersex
“gendersex.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gendersex. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gendersex,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gendersex.
Source: gendersex on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.