The social and cultural roles, behaviors, and identities related to being male, female, both, neither, or something else; in grammar, a way of grouping nouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
From Old French *gendre* and Latin *genus* meaning “kind, sort, type.” It originally referred to grammatical classes of nouns, not people. Over time, it expanded to describe social and identity aspects of being male, female, and beyond, distinct from biological sex.
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