misgender
Meaning
Verb
- To refer to (a person) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally; for example, calling a woman "son" or a boy "she".
- To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.
Origin
- From mis- + gender. Attested since at least 1990.
Modern English dictionary
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