third sex

既定 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

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集合名詞 古風

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.

日本語の意味

第三の性：男性や女性に分類されない、またはその枠組みを超える性のカテゴリー。 / 男性・女性以外の性、または社会的・文化的な性役割において独自の位置づけを持つ人々を指す概念。

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The new policy recognizes the third sex as a distinct legal category.

新しい政策は、第三の性を別個の法的なカテゴリーとして認めている。

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意味（1）

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.

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., […]

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意味（2）

(dated, collective) Gay people.

“Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.

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意味（3）

(dated, collective) The clergy, the priesthood (seen as emasculate or not participating in sex).

It is not surprising, then, that the Christian Churches […] extend just sufficient verbal patronage to labor to save themselves from being howled at, […] the clergy, who, as Sidney Smith said, are a third sex — neither male nor female, but effeminate — are instinctively conservative, thoroughly enamored of what is, and obstinately averse to all radical changes. Their timidity would be quite phenomenal, if they were not the third sex; and, like all timid people, they can shriek and yell and curse and foam at the mouth when they are well frightened.

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third sexes （ plural ）