gender-neutralize

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English

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Etymology

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From gender-neutral +‎ -ize.

Verb

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gender-neutralize (third-person singular simple present gender-neutralizes, present participle gender-neutralizing, simple past and past participle gender-neutralized)

  1. (transitive) To render (something) gender-neutral.
    • 2015 October 8, Soraya Chemaly, “Today's Nobel Prize in Literature is a Win for Humanity”, in Time[1]:
      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), [].
    • 2024, Luvell Anderson, Ernie Lepore, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, page 313:
      If we're going to gender-neutralize some parts of English, why don't we just gender-neutralize everything?