单词 | third gender |
释义 | > as lemmasthird gender third gender n. (a) (originally) a (notional) category of people of indeterminate gender or who have both masculine and feminine characteristics; (b) (now) (esp. in certain non-Western cultures) a category of people who do not identify themselves as male or female, but rather as neither, as both, or as a combination of male and female genders. ΚΠ 1826 London Mag. June 160 Origen was of the third gender. 1897 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 2 Sept. 317/2 The young clergyman..shrinks from being classified with that third gender to which members of his profession have been said to belong. 1963 Laurel (Mississippi) Leader-Call 15 Aug. 4/5 If we cannot believe in men or women, shall we pray for the creation of a third gender? 1972 Sci. News 102 376/2 Voorhies..has found at least five societies that recognize a third gender. 1996 S. O. Murray Amer. Gay vi. 161 An indigenous liminal/sacralized ‘third gender’ role that used to be called berdache (derived from the Persian bardag) is now called ‘two spirit’. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Apr. Supreme court judgments in India and Pakistan have upheld the rights of third gender groups such as Hijras and Kothis. < as lemmas |
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