"third gender" meaning in All languages combined

See third gender on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: third genders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} third gender (countable and uncountable, plural third genders)
  1. (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.) Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Anthropology, Gender, Transgender Related terms: transgender, genderqueer, non-binary, bigender, ambigender, genderfluid, agender, cisgender, two-spirit, sworn virgin Translations (Translations): troisième genre (French), tredje kjønn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-third_gender-en-noun-mP0I05rN Disambiguation of Gender: 100 0 Disambiguation of Transgender: 98 2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 95 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 96 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 94 6 Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'Translations': 100 0
  2. (colloquial) A trans woman Tags: colloquial, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-third_gender-en-noun-VfBwjcgE

Inflected forms

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