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Definition

male or female

or (especially with regard to self-identification): the state of being male, female, or in any of many trans categories

Less commonly, gender can refer to a grammatical categories. In some languages (not modern English), nouns that are not distinguishable by biological sex, can still have a feminine or masculine gender.

Gender roles were more defined when my grandmother was growing up.

gender = male/female/trans

The court found the company guilty of gender discrimination.

gender = male/female/trans

The study found pay differences by gender.

gender = the state of being male or female

Facebook has over 50 choices that can be selected as gender.

gender = the state of being male, female, or in any of many trans categories

It's that whole 'play like a girl' mind-set the male gender uses to belittle women, when we have as much athleticism as they do.
Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

gender = sexual group

"What gender is it?" Lily asked.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

gender = male or female

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
My sisters are not venomous, but whether that's due to gender or a random chance... who knows?
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
One is not "gender-specific," as they say these days (psychoactive substance abuse).
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
"Gender transition," Grant said.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Gage being drafted to make breakfast today is an example of the basics in non-gender-specific teamwork.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
If you term it as gender.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
I wasn't prepared for gender obsessions, race and class complexities, or the new-to-me idea that war and male leadership were part of human nature.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Their line these days is that great art transcends gender.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
"Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive "goodness" of the feminine gender.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
I can change the voice's gender or accent or whatever.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
It's so exclusive it has no gender.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
After one of my exhibitions Lois would try to discipline me by withholding the sweets of her gender.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men

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