English
gender-blind
From gender + blind, by analogy with color blind (“holding no prejudice based on skin color; not paying attention to skin color”).
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’
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Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus ‘birth, origin; kind, type’
Old French gendre ‘type, kind’
Middle English gendre ‘type’
English gender
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- ‘to blend’
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Proto-Germanic *blindaz
Proto-West Germanic *blind
Old English blind
Middle English blynd ‘blind’
English blind
Today it means
adj Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / gender-blind