Etymograph

English

malgender

From mal- + gender.

Formed from mal- + gender

Proto-Italic *malos

Archaic Latin malos

Latin malus ‘bad’

Latin male ‘badly’

English mal-

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

The story

First known use is by Tumblr blogger penisbagelbite in the April 2024 blog post " 'Affirmation' & Malgendering".

Today it means

verb To insincerely or disparagingly gender an individual correctly, particularly to do so by referencing gender stereotypes (e.g. telling a trans man he is archetypically unhygienic).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / malgender