"fourth gender" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fourth genders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fourth gender (countable and uncountable, plural fourth genders)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: fourth gender Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Anthropology, Gender Synonyms: fourth-gender [attributive] Related terms: third gender

Inflected forms

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