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Third sex

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third gendernoun(anthropology) A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize three or more genders, which is neither male nor female; in some societies, the category may contain individuals who are intersex or androgynous, while other societies may categorize transgender people into it. (Compare fourth gender.)
fourth gendernoun(anthropology) A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize four or more genders, which is neither cis male nor cis female; often, such societies consider trans men to constitute a third gender and trans women to constitute a fourth gender, or vice versa.
gender minoritynounA person who is not a binary cisgender person (i.e. a transgender or non-binary person), or these people collectively. (Also used attributively.)
gendersexnounSex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.
gendernounIdentification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
kathoeynounA transgender person or person of a third gender assigned male at birth.
trans womannounA transgender or transsexual woman; a woman who was assigned male at birth, that is, a person who was assigned male at birth, but has a female or primarily female gender identity.
intergendernoun(LGBTQ, rare) A person whose gender identity is midway between male and female.
trans mannounA transgender or transsexual man; a man who was assigned female at birth, that is, a person who was assigned female at birth, but has a male or primarily male gender identity.
intersexual(biology) Having both male and female characteristics, or characteristics intermediate between the sexes.
three-waynoun(attributive) Relating to three different directions.
transgendered(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Transgender; denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
transfolknoun(informal) Transgender people.
gynandromorphnounAn insect, crustacean or bird literally having physical characteristics of both sexes, usually displaying a bilateral difference.
threesomenounAn instance of sexual activity involving three people.
demigender(rare) Identifying partially or mostly with one gender and at the same time with another gender.
gender bendernoun(idiomatic, colloquial) A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.
trans-identified malenoun(uncommon) Transgender male.
genitorynoun(obsolete) The sex organs, genitals.
trans femalenounA trans woman or trans girl.

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