Section 7

Citation: Section 7
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 pecu-
 liarities of living beings that subserves biparental repro-
 duction with its concomitant genetic segregation and re-
 combination which underlie most evolutionary change,
 that in its typical dichotomous occurrence is usu. genet-
 ically controlled and associated with special sex chromo-
 somes, 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 bac-
 teria 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, MEIO-
 SIS, MENDEL’S LAW; FREEMARTIN, HERMAPHRODITE,
 INTERSEX 3: the sphere of interpersonal behavior esp. be-
 tween 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, fam-
 ily—M. M. Forney> 4: the phenomena of sexual instincts
 and their manifestations <with his customary combina-
 tion 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
58                       BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY

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