"third gender" meaning in English

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Noun

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 four or more genders, which is neither cis man/cis boy nor cis woman/cis girl; often, such societies consider trans man/trans boy/transmasculine to constitute a fourth gender and trans woman/trans girl/transfeminine to constitute a third gender. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Anthropology, Gender, LGBTQ, People, Transgender Related terms: fourth gender
    Sense id: en-third_gender-en-noun-JobBfhQO Disambiguation of Gender: 100 0 Disambiguation of LGBTQ: 82 18 Disambiguation of People: 98 2 Disambiguation of Transgender: 81 19 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: 47 53 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 53 47 Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, sciences
  2. (colloquial) A trans woman/trans girl/transfeminine Tags: colloquial, countable, uncountable Translations (Translations): troisième genre (French), tredje kjønn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål)
    Sense id: en-third_gender-en-noun-JyJ6Jc7S 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: 47 53 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'Translations': 44 56

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