Gender

In its most common rudimentary usage gender represents the distinction between the sexes of living beings, including humans.

The usage of this term falls into several areas.

For usages relating to sex and human relations see

• Gender and sexuality studies
• Gender studies
• Sexual orientation
• Transgender
• Transsexual
• Legal aspects of transsexualism
• Hate crime
• Patriarchy
• Psychology

For usages relating to grammar and linguistics see

• Gender-neutral pronouns
• Gender-specific pronoun
• Grammatical gender
• Non-sexist language
• Singular they

For the use of the term in literary criticism see

• gender analysis

For usages in biology see

• Autosome
• Hermaphrodite

Situations sometimes arise where gender may be mimicked by inanimate objects, notably in cable connectors that have male and female counterparts. In this context see

• Gender changer