Section 7

Citation: Section 7 3.
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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3. The distinction between male and female in general.
In recent use often with more explicit notion: The sum of
those differences in the structure and function of the repro-
ductive organs on the ground of which beings are distin-
guished as male and female, and of the other physiological
differences consequent on these; the class of phenomena
with which these differences are concerned.
   Organs of sex: the reproductive organs in sexed animals or plants.
   a 1631 DONNE Songs & Sonn., The Printrose Poems 1912 I. 61 Should she Be more then
woman, she would get above All thought of sexe, and think to move My heart to study her,
and not to love. a 1643 CARTWRIGHT Siedge III. vi, My Soul’s As Male as yours; there’s no Sex
in the mind. 1748 MELMOTH Fitzosborne Lett. lxii. (1749) II. 119 There may be a kind of sex
in the very soul. 1751 HARRIS Hermes Wks. (1841) 129 Besides number, another characteris-
tic, visible in substances, is that of sex. 1878 GLADSTONE Prim. Homer 68 Athenè .. has noth-
ing of sex except the gender, nothing of the woman except the form. 1887 K. PEARSON Eth.
Freethought xv. (1888) 429 What is the true type of social (moral) action in matters of sex?
1895 CRACKANTHORPE in 19th Cent. Apr. 607 (art.) Sex in modern literature. Ibid. 614 The
writers and readers who have strenuously refused to allow to sex its place in creative art.
1912 H. G. WELLS Marriage ii. § 6. 72 The young need .. to be told .. all we know of three
fundamental things; the first of which is God, .. and the third Sex.
  ¶ 4. Used, by confusion, in senses of                          SECT   (q. v. I, 4 b, 7,
and cf. I d note).
   1575-85 ABP. SANDYS Serm. xx. 358 So are all sexes and sorts of people called vpon. 1583
MELBANCKE Philotimus L iij b, Whether thinkest thou better sporte & more absurd, to see an
Asse play on an harpe contrary to his sex, or heare [etc.]. 1586 J. HOOKER Hist. Irel. 180/2 in
Holinshed, The whole sex of the Oconhours. 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. I. 359 O de-
testable furie, not to be found in most cruell beasts, which spare the blood of their sexe. a
1704 T BROWN Dial. Dead, Friendship Wks. 1711 IV. 56 We have had enough of these Chris-
tians, and sure there can be no worse among the other Sex of Mankind [i.e. Jews and Turks]?
1707 ATTERBURY Large Vind. Doctr. 47 Much less can I imagine, why a Jewish Sex (whether
of Pharisees or Saducees) should be represented, as [etc.].
  5. attrib. and Comb., as sex-distinction, function, etc.; sex-
abusing, transforming adjs.; sex-cell, a reproductive cell,
with either male or female function; a sperm-cell or an egg-
cell.
   1642 H. MORE Song of Soul I. III. lxxi, Mad-making waters, sex trans-forming springs.
62                       BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY

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