Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)

Citation: Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Parent Document: Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2020-06-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4760997/bostock-v-clayton-county/ ↗

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1sex \'seks\ n - ES often attrib [ME, fr. L sexus ; prob. akin to L secare to cut-more at SAW ] 1: one of the two divisions of organic esp. human beings respectively designated male or female < a member of the opposite ~>2: the sum of the morphological, physiological, and behavioral peculiarities of living beings that subserves biparental reproduction with its concomitant genetic segregation and recombination which underlie most evolutionary change, that in its typical dichotomous occurrence is usu. genetically controlled and associated with special sex chromosomes, and that is typically manifested as maleness and femaleness with one or the other of these being present in most higher animals though both may occur in the same individual in many plants and some invertebrates and though no such distinction can be made in many lower forms (as some fungi, protozoans, and possibly bacteria and viruses) either because males and females are replaced by mating types or because the participants in sexual reproduction are indistinguishable-compare HETEROTHALLIC, HOMOTHALLIC; FERTILIZATION, MEIOSIS, MENDEL'S LAW; FREEMARTIN, HERMAPHRODITE, INTERSEX 3: the sphere of interpersonal behavior esp. between male and female most directly associated with, leading up to, substituting for, or resulting from genital union < agree that the Christian's attitude toward ~ should not be considered apart from love, marriage, family-M. M. Forney>4: the phenomena of sexual instincts and their manifestations < with his customary combination of philosophy, insight, good will toward the world, and entertaining interest in ~-Allen Drury> < studying and assembling what modern scientists have discovered about ~-Time>; specif : SEXUAL INTERCOURSE < an old law imposing death for ~ outside marriage-William Empson>

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