gender-neutralize
verbEtymology From gender-neutral + -ize.
1
To render (something) gender-neutral.
- J.K. Rowling, among the most notable women to have gender-neutralized their names, is part of a very long tradition that includes the Bronte sisters (aka, the Bell Brothers), Louisa May Alcott (B.A. Evans),[…].2015 October 8, Soraya Chemaly, “Today's Nobel Prize in Literature is a Win for Humanity”, in Time:
- If we're going to gender-neutralize some parts of English, why don't we just gender-neutralize everything?2024, Luvell Anderson, Ernie Lepore, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, page 313: