"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 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.) Wikipedia link: third 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)

Inflected forms

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