misgenderedadj.
/mɪsˈdʒɛndəd/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈdʒɛndərd/ 1. Having been assigned the wrong grammatical gender.In quot. 1932 in a crossword clue, the answer to which (adroit) hinges on the misspelling of French à droite (‘on the right’, in which the noun droite has feminine gender) as à droit (in which droit has masculine gender).
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1932 Spectator 2 Dec. 810/2 (crossword clue) Clever, but suggests the Continental rule of the road misgendered.
1995 Compar. Lit. Stud. 32 275 Gloucester's speech..is rendered as a sort of pidgin French, full of un- or ill-conjugated verbs..and mis-gendered nouns.
2017 R. Schuman Schadenfreude 160 Leonie was always..the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun.
2. Involving a mistake or misstatement regarding a person’s gender; assigned or attributed with the wrong gender. Now esp.: (usually of a transgender person) addressed or referred to in terms that do not reflect the gender with which that person identifies.In quot. 1974: involving a reversal of gender roles.
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1974 Columbia Missourian 19 Jan. 5/8 Miss Keaton..provides the deft foil for Allen's comedy,..particularly in a misgendered scene from ‘Streetcar Named Desire’.
1979 Crete–Park Forest South (Illinois) Star 4 Jan. s51/1 The International Chili Society was all set to crown the ‘King of Chili’... Then a lady..walked off with the prize, and the misgendered trophy.
1993 Narrative 1 239 The vampire portion of the narrative is in part about the regendering of apparently ungendered or misgendered beings.
2018 @visagermusic 13 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If you're a cis person who slips up,..an over-the-top apology..asks the misgendered person to assure you that it's OK.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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