third sex

== English == === Noun === third sex (plural third sexes) A third gender, a category of people who are not male or female, or whose sexual roles, anatomy, or identities place them outside of the established male and female categories. c. 1913, Hartmann Grisar (author), E. M. Lamond (translator), Luther (Complete) (2020 Library of Alexandria edition: →ISBN; Gutenberg): The words of St. Paul in Cor. vii., of Our Lord in Mat. xix., concerning the third sex of the eunuchs, and of St. John in Apoc. xiv., […] For more quotations using this term, see Citations:third sex. (dated, collective) Gay people. Synonym: gaydom (dated, collective) The clergy, the priesthood (seen as emasculate or not participating in sex). Synonyms: first estate, spirituality, spiritualty; see also Thesaurus:clergy ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “third sex”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.