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/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/ · verb
(transitive) To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally..
Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Gendering is the process of classifying and identifying the gender of other people, quickly and usually unconsciously, based on just a few visual and/or audio clues. This process of gendering privileges cisgendered people as few cisgendered people have had the experience of being misgendered. The experience of being misgendered is common for all transgendered people before they transition and for many transgendered people after they transition.
With a few notable exceptions[…]reports from the mainstream press willfully misgendered Manning while reporting this news.
Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.
Occasionally, of course, we misgender people by accident. As a child is transitioning from presenting as a boy to presenting as a girl, for example, it may take time for friends and adults around that child to remember to use the pronoun "she," no matter how loving, accepting, and well meaning they are.
Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]
Socially empowering bots are out there. For instance, @she_not_he is “a bot politely correcting Twitter users who misgender Caitlyn Jenner.”
A cis man who passes easily as male—meaning he was assigned male at birth, he identifies as male, he embodies his culture's ideals of masculinity comfortably, and he has never experienced being misgendered—is at the pinnacle of gender privilege and gender identity power.
Use misgender when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misgender means (transitive) To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally..
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Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.
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