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What does gender-free mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gender-free? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Free of gender; not having or not attaching relevance to gender.
    1. (of people, not gradable) (Identifying themselves as) having no gender, as being neither male nor female nor any third gender.
    2. (of objects, options, etc) Socially acceptable for and available to any gender.
    3. (of a society, gradable) Which does not define people in the basis of gender; in which gender is not present, or is insignificant or irrelevant to people's lives and choices.
    4. (of words) Appropriately used of, or perceived as being appropriately used of, any gender.
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Yet it can be quickly ignited to remind us that attempts at gender-free parenting are not only plagued by inadequate work-family policies, gender discrimination, and deep-seated gendered beliefs and ideologies.
I assured her that while I am sensitive to the concept of gender-free language, I could not write about women in the diaconate without talking about women.
The underlying argument is that if gender relations were altered at the level of social structure, a more gender-free world would eventually lead to gender-free parenting.
Where possible without contortion, I have used gender-free language in translating these terms.
Many argue that we must build a gender-free world, that is, a world in which society does not define and organize all people on the basis of gender categories.
As for person, the word is human, gender-free.

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