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What does misgender mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word misgender? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To refer to a person using terms that express the wrong gender, either accidentally or deliberately; for example by calling a woman "son", a boy "she", or an agender individual "he" or "she" instead of "they".
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Examples
They aren't the only professionals familiar with the case who tend to misgender Brandon when discussing his case.
Their reports also misgender the trans student several times.
Television news programs have similarly continued to misgender her.
We've had a school where staff members continued to misgender a young person to their face, in front of other pupils, and passed it off as forgetting.
I hope she was able to be around people who treat her as a valued, valid human being and don't misgender her.
The papers go out of their way to misgender and belittle, replacing every correct gender reference with one that seems calculated to humiliate.

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