Sentence examples for gender labels from inspiring English sources

I don't like using gender labels, but I really do think Powell is our finest woman writer.

When it comes to gender, labels are increasingly irrelevant in a millennial world and clothes are a crucial part of that.

Throughout 2013 the campaign group Let Toys Be Toys has been canvassing the UK's largest retailers to remove gender labels and "organise toys by genre not gender".

Following a survey by its members, the group claims that a year ago, half of the shops it assessed used gender labels on toy shelves, compared with a fifth in 2013.

At a workshop called "Binary Defiance," at the True Colors Conference, the facilitator wrote specialized gender labels on the blackboard so fast that I practically sprained my wrist writing them down: "non-binary, gender queer, bigender, trigender, agender, intergender, pangender, neutrois, 3rd gender, androgyne, two-spirit, self-coined, genderfluid".

"Many retailers have made real progress over the last few years, dropping gender labels in stores and online – our new research shows a 70% decrease in the use of online gender navigation options since 2012 – but there's still work to do to challenge the stereotyped ways that toys are often packaged and promoted.

The Name Game: Erasing the Gender Label What's in a name?

Nine publishers have now agreed to drop gender labelling on books.

Toys R Us today bowed to anti-sexist marketing demands and pledged to drop gender labelling for its products.

In both cases, a practice that began with the non-binary community as a means to assert a gender outside of the binary is being taken up by individuals who simply reject having a gender label attached.

Top stores including Hamley's and Marks & Spencer have already stopped labelling toys as 'boys' or 'girls', and three in five mums back retailers removing all gender labelling on items including clothes, books, kids' furniture and toys.