misgender

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

   “With a few notable exceptions[…]reports from the mainstream press willfully misgendered Manning while reporting this news.”

   “Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.”

   “Occasionally, of course, we misgender people by accident. As a child is transitioning from presenting as a boy to presenting as a girl, for example, it may take time for friends and adults around that child to remember to use the pronoun "she," no matter how loving, accepting, and well meaning they are.”

2. (transitive)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.”

   “Next is a list of misgendered words between the two languages: Similar words with different genders […]”