This is one of the terms you can’t say in the Trump Regime. See a comprehensive list at the Forbidden Words Project.
forbidden word: gendered
gendered
gendered adjective
characteristic of, suited to, or biased toward one gender.
gendered diapers.
from — Definition of gendered. (n.d.). In dictionary.com.
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Example of gendered in a sentence
“If the transfers are coupled with messaging on the recognition of women’s unpaid work, they could potentially disrupt the gendered division of labour when paid employment opportunities become available,” says Prof Kotiswaran.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
“Hacks” retains its sharpness by defying reflexive expectations of cause and effect, especially when it comes to gendered considerations of power.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
The book is also invested in dating norms and gendered norms, and she dates women and men.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
But this new kind of medievalism is everywhere, and it’s heavily gendered.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
And this highlights a theme that runs through almost every Soviet female soldier’s story of the Great Patriotic War: War is gendered, and it is not feminine.
From “A Thousand Sisters” by Elizabeth Wein
from — Definition of gendered. (n.d.). In dictionary.com.
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gendered
gendered, verb
- simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of gender (“engender”)
gendered, adjective
gendered (comparative more gendered, superlative most gendered)
- (linguistics, of a language) Having grammatical gender.
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Grammatically, Hebrew is a gendered language because every noun is either masculine or feminine.
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- Having attributes associated with gender.
- Divided by gender.
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In the past, parenting was a more gendered activity with more distinct male and female roles.
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Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- agendered
- ambigendered
- bigendered
- cisgendered
- genderedness
- hypergendered
- intergendered
- multigendered
- nongendered
- omnigendered
- pangendered
- polygendered
from — gendered – Wiktionary, the free dictionary. (n.d.). Wiktionary.
April 9, 2026
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“Some of these moves seem tragically comical, like the elimination of photos from a Defense Department database of the World War II B-29 aircraft Enola Gay while erasing the recognition of the service of LGBTQ+ Americans who served in the military.”
from — Connelly, E. A. (2025, December 22). Federal Government’s Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship. PEN America.

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What is gendered is / specific within culture / (like “gender” itself)
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