"gender star" meaning in English

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          "ref": "[2019 January 22, Jon Shelton, “City of Hanover overhauls gender language usage in official texts”, in Deutsche Welle:",
          "text": "Current attempts to shorten the space devoted to accepted forms of differentiation have included the introduction of an uppercase \"I\" sandwiched in compound nouns addressing both males and females at once. An asterisk, known as the \"gender star\" has also been added to include citizens who do not consider themselves either",
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          "ref": "[2021 June 21, Nette Nöstlinger, “German news gets gender-neutral makeover”, in Politico:",
          "text": "For now, at least, they decided not to adopt more radical changes, such as the so-called gender star, which places an asterisk before the feminine word-ending to include females, males, and the non-binary: Schüler*innen, for example.",
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          "word": "gender asterisk"
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  "word": "gender star"
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