misgender

verb

Etymology: From mis- + gender, 1989.

1. To refer to (someone) using terms that express the wrong gender, either unknowingly or intentionally.

   “Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.”

   “Gendering is the process of classifying and identifying the gender of other people, quickly and usually unconsciously, based on just a few visual and/or audio clues. This process of gendering privileges cisgendered people as few cisgendered people have had the experience of being misgendered. The experience of being misgendered is common for all transgendered people before they transition and for many transgendered people after they transition.”

2. To use the wrong grammatical gender with a word.

   “Leonie was always, in fact, the first to point out a misconjugated verb, a misgendered noun, […]”

   “Our first demonstration at the Canadian border—where we’d planned to test rumors about PWAs being denied entry into Canada by announcing we all had AIDS—fizzled when our bus entered the country without incident, save the late realization that our bilingual T-shirts had misgendered the virus—it's “le SIDA,” not “la SIDA”—causing a frantic scramble for sharpies and eyebrow pencils to correct the offending vowel.”