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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
or (especially with regard to self-identification): the state of being male, female, or in any of many trans categories
- Think, for example, of how you guys has now become a generic form of address: it is gender-, age-, and class-neutral, and decidedly informal.Introduction (46% in)
- Besides these important ethnic influences, California's leading-edge culture entails a tolerance for gender diversity that has been well ahead of most of America for at least two generations.seven — Language from a State of Change (72% in)
- Don't ask, don't tell is at the other end of the cultural spectrum from San Francisco, where nobody has needed to ask for a long time because everybody has been telling—everything, embracing in the process a far wider range of gender definition and terminology than when we filmed the gay community in the 1980s.seven — Language from a State of Change (81% in)
- Today, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Parade committee told us, they could think of still other kinds of queens, but the word was too narrow a focus for the community [queens being only gay men), because many other people now had a voice, and because the idea of gender had increasingly become "malleable and fluid."seven — Language from a State of Change (84% in)
- Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.seven — Language from a State of Change (85% in)
- Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.seven — Language from a State of Change (85% in)
- Transsexual—Originally denned as people who had undergone hormonal or surgical intervention to make a physical transition from one gender to another, but now applied more vaguely.seven — Language from a State of Change (87% in)
- Intersexual—A term adopted for people born with genitalia neither male nor female, as part of a movement to prevent surgical alteration to a gender arbitrarily decided by a doctor.seven — Language from a State of Change (87% in)
- Linguist Dennis Baron has studied the gender issue in language and says that feminism has also had its impact on which words women choose to use or not to use.seven — Language from a State of Change (93% in)
- So they'll bring to bear not only understanding the words, but looking for what we call paralin-guistic cues, things like, What is the gender of the voice?eight — Teaching Computers to Speak American (5% in)
- They thought to solve it by substituting synthetic voices so clearly nonhuman that people would not succumb to gender stereotypes, but people still did.eight — Teaching Computers to Speak American (9% in)
- "Even obvious synthetic speech, like Baldi's," Nass said, "will be assigned a gender, will be assigned an emotion, an accent, a location in the country, a personality—the entire range of things that we do when we hear a human voice.eight — Teaching Computers to Speak American (27% in)
There are no more uses of "gender" in Do You Speak American?.
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